Policy & the Economy
February 1, 2018
When Healthcare Providers Consolidate, Medical Bills Rise
Can anything be done to rein in this expensive trend?
Cory Capps, David Dranove and Christopher Ody
January 5, 2018
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.
Craig Garthwaite, Meghan Busse, Amanda Starc and R. Mark McCareins
January 4, 2018
Will People Price Shop for Healthcare?
A new study says yes, but only if the prices are easy to understand.
Elena Prager
December 1, 2017
Four Ways to Improve the Efficiency of U.S. Healthcare Markets
An economist discusses how to ensure the right mix of access, affordability, and quality.
Amanda Starc
October 3, 2017
Prescription Drug Coupons Actually Increase Healthcare Spending by Billions
Consumers may love them, but coupons steer people away from inexpensive generics.
Leemore Dafny, Christopher Ody and Matt Schmitt
August 3, 2017
What Happens to Healthcare Costs When Nonprofit Hospitals Take a Financial Hit?
The answer has implications for the debate over the Affordable Care Act.
David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody
April 4, 2017
What Happens to Patient Care When There Are Not Enough Nurses?
The impact can be significant, especially in nursing homes.
Benjamin Friedrich and Martin B. Hackmann
March 13, 2017
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.
Craig Garthwaite
January 5, 2017
Under the ACA, the Cost of Caring for the Uninsured Decreased for Hospitals
The benefit has come only in states that expanded Medicaid.
David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody
December 2, 2016
Is There a Better Way to Allocate Organs to Transplant Patients?
Two ideas for changing a system where people linger on waitlists while kidneys spoil.
Chaithanya Bandi, Nikolaos Trichakis, Phebe Vayanos and James Schummer
December 2, 2016
The Hidden Benefits of TV Drug Ads
Patients and taxpayers benefit from controversial direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
Michael Sinkinson and Amanda Starc
June 6, 2016
Can Your Invention Take the Heat?
An infant HIV test offers lessons for entrepreneurs designing for tough conditions.
Kara Palamountain
February 1, 2016
Why Healthcare Spending Has Slowed
Is the Affordable Care Act getting too much credit?
David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody
June 22, 2015
Who Bears the Cost of the Uninsured? Nonprofit Hospitals.
When governments do not provide health insurance, hospitals must provide it instead.
Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross and Matthew J. Notowidigdo
May 1, 2015
Collaborating to Save Lives
For an integrated healthcare organization, culture is the key to operational efficiency.
Leemore S. Dafny and William Ocasio
June 4, 2012
When Hospitals Turn Away Ambulances
Uncovering flaws in a policy intended to prevent ER overcrowding
Sarang Deo and Itai Gurvich
June 4, 2012
Rebooting Employer-Sponsored Healthcare
Would employees be happier with more health plan choices?
Leemore S. Dafny, Katherine Ho and Mauricio Varela
June 4, 2012
How Poverty Damages Health
Anti-poverty programs boost recipients’ well-being
William Evans and Craig Garthwaite
June 4, 2012
A Patient, Not a Person
Medicine’s bad habit of dehumanizing patients
Omar Sultan Haque and Adam Waytz
March 5, 2012
Patients, Pricing, and Prescription Drugs
Maximizing social benefit from the Medicaid drug program
Peter Klibanoff and Tapas Kundu
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