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Consolidation Among US Health Insurers Hurts Doctor Pay

Posted in Health Care on Oct 26th, 2009

We examine whether and to what extent consolidation in the U.S. health insurance industry is leading to higher employer-sponsored insurance premiums. We make use of a proprietary, panel dataset of employer-sponsored healthplans enrolling over 10 million Americans annually between 1998 and 2006 to explore the relationship between premium growth and changes in market concentration. We […]

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Since I Was Asked

Posted in growth, Institutions on May 15th, 2008

One of my best former students asked me recently, “What one US policy change would have the biggest impact for improving the US economy?  Same question regarding the world.” I am usually loathe to answer these sorts of questions, because I don’t want anyone to mistake an answer for something that would be easy to […]

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