New York Times writer David Leonhardt offers his test for healthcare reform: how a new system manages prostate cancer cases. Leonhardt writes: The prostate cancer test will determine whether President Obama and Congress put...
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Check out Gary Stix’s February 2004 critique of the relevance of behavioral economics: Having spent much of his career studying human behavior within social networks, [University of Chicago professor Gary] Becker, who holds...
The most recent Wired has a series of articles on how tracking personal data is changing people’s behaviors. They cite the Nike+ system as an example of the potential revolutionary effect of self measurement. Nike+...
Some department stores in the United States require employees to carry clear plastic handbags so the company security folks can quickly determine whether there’s any shoplifting going on. I’d think something...
In the New Yorker, Jonah Lehrer updates us on the Stanford “marshmallow” experiments from the late 1960s. Kids were offered a single marshmallow, with the promise of another if they could refrain for several...
This article from The New York Times suggests that we need a cultural shift around healthcare in the United States. Despite our intuition, more is not better. Can we import frugal chic into our medical care? It’s up to...
President Obama intends to pay for a healthcare bill in part with cuts in wasteful spending, according to a New York Times article earlier this month: Mr. Obama said he had identified “an additional $313 billion in savings that...
Peter Orszag comments on how the Obama administration will rely more heavily on evidence to drive policy and inform decisions. Evidence should trump intuition — and the higher the stakes, the greater reliance we should...
In a recent weekly address, President Obama laid out the three tenets of his healthcare plan: This week, I conveyed to Congress my belief that any healthcare reform must be built around fundamental reforms that lower costs...
An article from last week’s New York Times explores the pressure the economy puts on patients at the pharmacy counter. One recent Wednesday, James S. Crawford, newly discharged from the hospital after his third heart...
