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Henry Aaron on Health Care CostsNovember 15, 2007, Featuring Henry AaronIn this bonus middle-of-the-week podcast, Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about health care costs. Researchers in a New England Journal of Medicine article have estimated that the US could save $209 billion if the US went to a single-payer system like Canada. Is this number reliable? Aaron takes a deeper look at the estimate and discusses the relevance of such estimates for health care policy. This is a special mid-week podcast. It's a follow-up to an earlier podcast with Arnold Kling that raised the issue of administrative costs and potential savings from going to a single-payer system. It also ties in with recent discussions here at EconTalk about the challenges of accurate measurement in the social sciences. We hope you enjoy it. If not, come back Monday when our regular schedule resumes. Time: 39:35
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (9) Arnold Kling on the Economics of Health Care and the Crisis of AbundanceNovember 05, 2007, Featuring Arnold Kling
Time: 58:53
Size: 27.0 MB
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (18) Hanson on HealthMay 28, 2007, Featuring Robin HansonRobin Hanson, of George Mason University, argues that health care is different, but not in the usual ways people claim. He describes a set of paradoxical empirical findings in the study of health care and tries to explain these paradoxes in a unified way. One of his arguments is that the human brain evolved in ways that make it hard for us to be rational about health care. He also discusses using prediction markets as a way of designing health care policy. Time: 1:12:16
Size: 33.1 MB
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (30) David Leonhardt on the MediaMarch 19, 2007, Featuring David LeonhardtDavid Leonhardt of the New York Times talks with Russ Roberts about media bias, competition between old and new media, global warming, and the role of information as an incentive to provide better health care. Time: 57:43
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (3) Richard Epstein on Property Rights and Drug PatentsFebruary 19, 2007, Featuring Richard EpsteinRichard Epstein of the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks about property rights, drug patents, the FDA, and the ideas in his latest book, Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation from Yale University Press. Time: 1:06:12
Size: 15.2 MB
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (7) Postrel on StyleNovember 27, 2006, Featuring Virginia PostrelAuthor and journalist Virginia Postrel talks about how business competes for customers using style and beauty, going beyond price and the standard measures of quality. She looks at the role of appearance in our daily lives and the change from earlier times when style and beauty were luxuries accessible only to the wealthy. She also talks about her donation of a kidney to a friend and how that affected the intensity of her feelings about the policies surrounding organ donations. Time: 58:30
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (3) The Economics of ObesitySeptember 25, 2006, Featuring Darius LakdawallaRuss Roberts talks with Darius Lakdawalla of Rand and the National Bureau of Economic Research on the economics of obesity, how much fatter are Americans and why. How much is due to the spread of fast food vs. the falling price of food and the change in the U.S. workplace? Time: 46.5
Size: 10.8 MB
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (3) Cogan on Improving the Health Care SystemJuly 31, 2006, Featuring John CoganRuss Roberts talks with Stanford University's John Cogan about what's wrong with America's health care system and how to make it right. Along the way they discuss economics of health care, the tax treatment of employer-provided insurance, the role of state-mandated insurance requirements and the political economy of health care reform. Time: 52.4
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (2) Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Mental Illness or Made-Up Malady?June 16, 2006, Featuring Russ RobertsRuss Roberts looks at the economics and science of intermittent explosive disorder—violent rage out of proportion to its cause. Was the recent study that discovered this problem good science or unreliable? Was the media coverage of the study accurate? How do state insurance regulations create incentives for intellectual dishonesty? Time: 24.1
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (3) The Economics of Organ DonationsJune 05, 2006, Featuring Richard EpsteinRuss Roberts and Richard Epstein, law professor at the University of Chicago, discuss the market for kidneys. Should people be allowed to buy and sell kidneys? How might a market for kidneys actually work in practice? Should mercenary motives be allowed to trump altruism? Epstein deals with these questions and more. Time: 39.5
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MORE: Posted by Russ Roberts. Permanent Link | Comments (1) The Economics of Medical MalpracticeMay 30, 2006, Featuring Alex TabarrokRuss Roberts and Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University talk about medical malpractice, why insurance premiums vary by state, price gouging by insurance companies, the politics of being a judge and an idea for a new TV show using a tried-and-true formula: American Victim. Time: 39.1
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