By Julián Urrutia I recently attended a presentation by Bernard Black about a study he is working on where he evaluates the effect of health insurance on overall mortality and health among the near-elderly through an observational study using the Health Retirement Survey. He found that health insurance, in general, was not associated with differences…
By Matthew Lawrence Public skepticism about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could in a sense turn out to be self-fulfilling. The success of the Exchanges will depend in large part on how many people enroll in them, that is, how many people comply with the individual mandate and sign up for insurance rather…
By Nicholson Price The New York Times has posted another installment of its excellent series, “Paying Till it Hurts,” by Elisabeth Rosenthal, this time on the astonishingly high costs of emergency room visits. The piece is worth a read in full for its infuriating detail—really, I think the whole series is—but the message is pretty…
By Allison Hoffman The Obama administration announced last week that the federally-run small-employer health insurance exchanges (or “SHOP” exchanges) will be delayed for a year, until November 2014. This announcement, like others regarding delays in PPACA implementation, generated a flurry of negative reactions from the media and some members of the business community. Critics lament…
