The United States is a nation of immigrants. Except for a small number of Native Americans, everyone is originally from somewhere else, and…
Book abstract: Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018…
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Within Medicare, the Medicare Advantage program has historically attracted better risks—healthier, lower-cost patients—than has traditional…
Health plans participating in the Medicare managed care program, called Medicare Advantage since 2003, have historically attracted…
Consumer-directed health plans are plans with high deductibles that typically require patients to bear no out-of-pocket costs for…
Understanding trends in physician earnings is important given health care cost growth and proposed Medicare physician fee reductions.1…
If New York Governor Andrew Cuomo requests $30 billion worth of federal aid to help New York rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, as he said he…
Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from
developed country data. However, given the…
As the wild winds of Hurricane Sandy sent trees toppling, I found myself recalling Mitt Romney’s finest moment as governor. In July 2006,…
As Beacon Hill prepares to revisit transportation issues early next year, lawmakers should listen to happiness researchers, who have found…