The rest of the world likes to say that everything in America is big: the cars, the CO2 emissions, the buildings, even the hamburgers. The farce at the U.S. government's website for enrollment i...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/11/transaction-costs-the-american-way/
We've written before about an unintended consequences of state repeals of motorcycle helmet laws : more organs available for transplant. Here's one more consequence , from Michigan, which stopp...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/06/fewer-helmets-higher-healthcare-costs/
Our latest podcast is called "Help Wanted. No Smokers Need Apply." (You can download/subscribe at iTunes , get the RSS feed , listen via the media player above, or read the transcript .) I...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/04/help-wanted-no-smokers-need-apply-a-new-marketplace-podcast-2/
What happens when a firm starts a "dependent verification" program designed to make sure that its employees are carrying only legitimate dependents on their health insurance? The economists MICHA...
https://freakonomics.com/2013/04/who-steals-healthcare-insurance/
JARED FORAN, an orthopedic surgeon in Denver, is a co-author of a new study called "Patient Perception of Physician Reimbursement in Elective Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty" (PDF here ). The ...
https://freakonomics.com/2012/06/what-surgeons-get-paid-and-what-patients-think-surgeons-get-paid/
My reveries about toasts landing butter side down — the subject of an upcoming blog entry — were pleasantly broken by the discussion on this blog of EZEKIEL EMANUEL’s analysis of healthcar...
https://freakonomics.com/2011/11/healthcare-needs-insurance-companies-like-a-fish-needs-a-bicycle/
One of the many debates over the new health care law is whether increased access to health insurance really improves the public's overall health and financial security. Even though there are hund...
Many economists view the health-care bill passed in the U.S. earlier this year as falling somewhere between "a complete waste of time" and "actually making the situation worse." Will the Conserva...
https://freakonomics.com/2010/10/stumbling-toward-a-market-for-health-care-in-the-u-k/
Zachary Meisel and Jesse Pines examine the issue of hospital "bouncebacks" -- patients who return to the hospital shortly after discharge: "ouncebacks are massively expensive-a recent study of Me...
https://freakonomics.com/2010/08/reducing-hospital-bouncebacks/
Has modern medicine failed people at the end of their lives? The post The End-of-Life War appeared first on Freakonomics .
A salad spinner centrifuge that can diagnose anemia. The post Finally: a Worthwhile Use for the Salad Spinner appeared first on Freakonomics .
https://freakonomics.com/2010/07/finally-a-worthwhile-use-for-the-salad-spinner/
The economics of high-tech medicine. The post Is Robotic Surgery Cheaper? appeared first on Freakonomics .
https://freakonomics.com/2010/07/is-robotic-surgery-cheaper/
Patients die. The post When Nurses Go on Strike appeared first on Freakonomics .
In Wired, Thomas Goetz profiles Sergey Brin's search for a cure for Parkinson's disease: "Brin proposes a different approach, one driven by computational muscle and staggeringly large data sets. ...
https://freakonomics.com/2010/07/harnessing-google-to-solve-parkinsons/
People are living longer, but getting cancer. The post Why Are Cancer Costs Rising? appeared first on Freakonomics .
https://freakonomics.com/2010/05/why-are-cancer-costs-rising/
Australia tests performance-based pay for doctors treating diabetics. The post Giving Doctors an Incentive appeared first on Freakonomics .
https://freakonomics.com/2010/04/giving-doctors-an-incentive/
The overutilization of emergency rooms is often cited as a dangerous symptom of America's broken healthcare system. But a new Slate article from Zachary Meisel and Jesse Pines offers a rosier pic...
The inspiration for a recent Obama speech. The post Obama the Talmudist? appeared first on Freakonomics .
The always-enlightening Atul Gawande evaluates the new health-care bill's efforts (or lack thereof) to control runaway health-care costs. The bill, which has been widely criticized for its lack o...
https://freakonomics.com/2009/12/the-power-of-pilot-programs/
Yes, the U.S. healthcare system is full of inefficiencies which lead to bloated costs. But no, that's not the reason that U.S. longevity ranks only 29th in the world. The post Why Does the U.S ...
https://freakonomics.com/2009/12/why-does-the-us-rank-29th-in-longevity/