Supply and Demand (in that order)
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Real PCE per person
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Real PCE per person was less in October than in August. Year-over-year, it has grown 1.4 percent. Real GDP per capita has grown 1.7 pe...
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Reasons to continue the Elmendorf era
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Very briefly, We are fortunate to have their shoulders to stand on . I find vast amounts of Elmendorf-era CBO research results to be in...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Professor Krugman continues to misinform readers about Romneycare
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" Obamacare is, in all important respects, identical to Romneycare ." Get the economics of Obamacare and Romneycare from Sid...
Saturday, November 15, 2014
CSPAN covers economic impact
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At the 4:58 mark, Dr. Aaron acknowledges that "there is a tradeoff." That was a big surprise to me, because Dr. Aaron was the...
Friday, November 14, 2014
Private and Public Comments on Health Cost Growth
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Once upon a time, it was acknowledged in academic circles that the ACA did little to cut the growth rate of health care costs. See, for ex...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Leveraging a Lack of Economic Understanding
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Anticipated here ( italics added ): A job, Mr. Mulligan explains, "is a transaction between buyers and sellers. When a transact...
More video about ACA design fooling the voters
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This is NOT the video from UPenn . This was is from Wash U , and I believe that Fox News uncovered it . Jump to 30:11 for the discussion ...
#Grubergate : anticipated on the last page of "Side Effects: The Economic Consequences of the Health Reform"
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Long before the Gruber video went viral , I had heard the general sentiment. It is NOT a universal sentiment in my field, but prevalent en...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
New uncompensated care estimate
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http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2014/UncompensatedCare/ib_UncompensatedCare.pdf Providers in 2014 save about $550 per person who get...
Monday, November 10, 2014
UPenn takes the high road
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Upenn briefly removed its suddenly-viral video of the 2013 health conference plenary session. Thanks for putting it back!
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