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Why Liberals Should Care About Occupational Licensing
Did you know that you can’t tell the future in Maryland? I’m not saying that you are physically (or psychically) unable to peer into the future and divine important information for residents of the...
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Did Medicare Part D make anyone healthier?
While critics are wont to cite Medicare Part D as an expensive Bush handout to drug companies, it has received praise in the past from others. For instance, here is Tyler Cowen: I’d just like to note...
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A data point in need of a theory: dog bites on the rise
I cannot think of an explanation for this trend: The number of Americans hospitalized for dog bites almost doubled over a 15-year-period, increasing to 9,500 in 2008 from 5,100 in 1993, a new...
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Overtreatment in America: This Time Patients Killing Themselves
A problem I have tried to highlight is that healthism (medical care, “healthy lifestyles”, prevention, etc) does not always lead to better average outcomes. A study I just ran across offered people a...
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Starving the Moral Beast
Since I can remember I’ve loved reminding my audiences that economics is not morality play. It wasn’t until Paul Krugman started blogging that I realized that I must have picked it up from one of his...
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+1000 for Signaling
Aaron Carol, at The Incidental Economist, has a post showing that disease prevalence (including obesity) in the United States is a very, very small portion of what is driving health care costs: Before...
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