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Craig Garthwaite

Professor of Strategy; Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services Management; Director of Healthcare at Kellogg

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Podcast: American Healthcare—Is This the Best We Can Do?

In the final episode of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we travel overseas, and through our own backyard, in search of a way forward.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Amanda Starc

July 22, 2024

Healthcare

Podcast: The Bargain That Fuels Big Pharma

What will we pay for the next groundbreaking drug? In episode 4 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explore the trade-off at the heart of pharmaceutical innovation.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Amanda Starc and Kevin Outterson

July 15, 2024

Healthcare

Podcast: The Misadventures of Insuring America

In episode 3 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explain how insurance companies became everybody’s favorite villain.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Paul Campbell

July 8, 2024

Healthcare

Podcast: The Power of the Physician's Pen

We rely on doctors to keep us healthy. In episode 2 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we learn at what cost.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Paul Campbell

July 1, 2024

Healthcare

Podcast: The Problem with Megaproviders

In episode 1 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we investigate how hospital systems got so big—and what that means for our health and our pocketbooks.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Lawton R. Burns

June 24, 2024

Healthcare

Podcast: Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 2

American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove, Amanda Starc and Paul Campbell

June 21, 2024

Healthcare

Will AI Eventually Replace Doctors?

Maybe not entirely. But the doctor–patient relationship is likely to change dramatically.

Researchers: David Dranove and Craig Garthwaite

February 1, 2023

Healthcare

Where Is the U.S. Healthcare Industry Headed?

New business models abound, private equity is expanding, and healthcare workers are hard to find.

Researchers: David Dranove and Craig Garthwaite

June 21, 2022

Healthcare

We Hear a Lot about New Drugs. But What Spurs Innovation in Medical Procedures?

There’s been little research on what brings about new procedures, despite how life-changing they can be.

Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite, Christopher Heard and Bingxiao Wu

April 5, 2022

Healthcare

Taking the Pulse of the Changing U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem

As healthcare gets more complex—and more expensive—business models are adapting to address misaligned interests and incentives.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite

May 17, 2021

Healthcare

How Regulating Hospital Prices Can Impact Patient Care

There are tangible benefits for quality of care when hospitals compete for higher-paying patients.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Christopher Ody and Amanda Starc

May 10, 2021

Healthcare

Big-Time College Athletes Don’t Get Paid. Here’s How This Amplifies Racial Inequities.

A new study finds that much of the revenue from football and basketball, which have a high proportion of Black athletes, gets funneled to predominantly white teams.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Jordan Keener, Matthew J. Notowidigdo and Nicole Ozminkowski

February 4, 2021

Social Impact

Pharma Companies Argue That Lower Drug Prices Would Mean Fewer Breakthrough Drugs. Is That True?

Probably not, a new study suggests—as long as the price decreases are modest.

Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Manuel I. Hermosilla

September 2, 2020

Healthcare

Would "Medicare for All" Really Reduce Healthcare Costs in the U.S.?

Single payer drives significant savings in countries like Canada. But new research suggests it might play out differently in the U.S.

Researchers: Jillian Chown, David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Jordan Keener

October 4, 2019

Healthcare

Take 5: Election Rules and Campaign Tactics That Sway Voters

A look at whether celebrity endorsements matter, why the top spot on a ballot is coveted, and more election research from Kellogg faculty.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Angela Y. Lee, Yuval Salant, Georgy Egorov and Jörg L. Spenkuch

October 30, 2018

Politics & Elections

What’s Behind the Current Wave of Vertical Integration?

From Amazon–Whole Foods to CVS–Aetna, companies are reconfiguring for an uncertain future. Four strategy professors discuss.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Meghan Busse, Amanda Starc and Mark McCareins

January 5, 2018

Strategy

What Happens to Healthcare Costs When Nonprofit Hospitals Take a Financial Hit?

The answer has implications for the debate over the Affordable Care Act.

Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody

August 3, 2017

Healthcare

A Healthcare Policy Expert on Four Key Differences Between the ACA and the AHCA

Craig Garthwaite explains how the GOP proposal could impact patients, insurers, and hospitals.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite

March 13, 2017

Healthcare

Under the ACA, the Cost of Caring for the Uninsured Decreased for Hospitals

The benefit has come only in states that expanded Medicaid.

Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody

January 5, 2017

Healthcare

Why Healthcare Spending Has Slowed

Is the Affordable Care Act getting too much credit?

Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody

February 1, 2016

Healthcare

Who Bears the Cost of the Uninsured? Nonprofit Hospitals.

When governments do not provide health insurance, hospitals must provide it instead.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

June 22, 2015

Healthcare

Plenty of Costs, Plenty of Benefits

A Q&A with Craig Garthwaite about the new insurance exchanges

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite

December 9, 2013

Policy

Freed from Employment Lock

Obamacare may lead people to choose to leave the labor market.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

August 5, 2013

Policy

Will Doctors Work Less Under “Obamacare”?

The effect of lower reimbursements on the medical workforce

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite

June 4, 2012

Policy

How Poverty Damages Health

Anti-poverty programs boost recipients’ well-being

Researchers: William Evans and Craig Garthwaite

June 4, 2012

Healthcare

The Oprah Effect

Celebrity endorsement of political candidates can make a difference at the polls.

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite and Timothy Moore

Balancing Medical Risks with Financial Needs

Controversial prescription drug Vioxx may have kept people in the workforce

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite

December 1, 2010

Economics

Fetal Influence on Familiar Ailments

The effect of in-utero conditions on long term health

Researchers: Craig Garthwaite

December 1, 2009

Policy