If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of central problems in…
The coverage, cost, and quality problems of the U.S. health care system are evident. Sustainable health care reform must go beyond…
Book Abstract: Ten papers, originally presented at a conference held in Carefree, Arizona, in May 2005, examine emerging issues in the…
Book Abstract: Ten papers, originally presented at a conference held in Carefree, Arizona, in May 2005, examine emerging issues in the…
We calculated prescription drug usage in two groups of Medicare beneficiaries: employer group with no coverage gap, and individual Part D…
Fifteen papers, originally presented at a National Bureau of Economic
Research conference held in October 2004, examine the…
Background— In patients with a major cardiac event, the first priority is to minimize time to treatment. For many patients, first contact…
The viability and stability of the Medicare Part D prescription drug program depend on accurate risk-adjusted payments. The current…
In his papers, Richard Cooper finds positive associations between health care quality and both specialist and generalist physicians, but he…