The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has alleged that Volkswagen Group of America (VW) violated the Clean Air Act (CAA) by…
The excise tax on high-cost health care plans, the so-called Cadillac tax, is good policy. Congress should side with President Obama and…
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Measuring consumer responsiveness to medical care prices is a central issue in
health economics and a key ingredient in the optimal design…
Not since the early, heady days of recombinant DNA (rDNA) has a technique of molecular biology so gripped the scientific imagination as the…
The conventional wisdom in health economics is that idiosyncratic features of
the healthcare sector leave little scope for market forces to…
A combination of legal rules and institutional forces pushes health plans to cover nearly every medical innovation. The result is that many…
Two of the best known randomized trials in health economics are described in detail in this chapter, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment…
Prior analyses of Medicare health plans have examined either utilization of services or quality of care, but not both jointly. Our…
In March 2015, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first biosimilar in the United States, ushering in the age of…