Knowing only life expectancy, child mortality, and the rate of death related to opioids, is it possible to guess whether a US county voted Democratic or Republican in the 2016 Presidential election? And the answer is: No, it’s not possible…. Read More ›
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JAMA Forum: Determining Value and Price in Health Care
Paying for value is all the rage in health care, and recently the spotlight has been brightest on prescription drugs. It’s hard to argue with the notion that how much we pay for a drug should be related to the… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Probing our Moral Values in Health Care: the Pricing of Specialty Drugs
By Uwe Reinhardt, PhD Imagine visualizing a health system through the eyes of an economist in the form of a supply curve, which shows the relationship between price of a product or service and the quantity of product that a… Read More ›