AI used; difficulties in regulation
Pharma, pharmacists, drug benefit managers blame each other
individual markets weak; candidates have different responses
Also Google as duopolists of information in West
Scheffler and Glied op-ed on study of NY and CA markets - standardized coverage and limitations on entry helped lower CA premiums
using broad correlations
Porter: adverse selection, tensions on concentration in health insurance (both sellers and buyers) and providers (coordination vs comp)
Leonhardt: debate on health reform echoes Medicare, philosophical divide
including mergers, seeking waivers on fraud and abuse laws
Leonhardt: some exit after reforms, including some bad plans
Baumol on cost disease and health care
monitoring to how much to big for Google ads during holiday shopping season
Interview with William Hsiao, economist at HSPH - helped Taiwan adopt single payer in one year based on Canadian model
Leonhardt on how health insurance distort employment choices by workers, hurts innovation
dispute, including court case, over whether to allowe Medicare data base to be used to provide evaluation and consumer info on individual physicians