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Question 1: Can you recommend any healthcare economics primers, surveys, whatever for us curious noobs? Question 2: If you were in charge, what would the futur

Question 1: Can you recommend any healthcare economics primers, surveys, whatever for us curious noobs? Question 2: If you were in charge, what would the future perfect healthcare system look like? Are there any systems today which resemble that system? -- Despite my efforts to learn, and experience in the industry, I'm at a complete loss. At best, I can spot some zombie silver bullet ideas. (eg "Tort reform FTW.") And I keep having "aha!" moments. TIL from this discussion is the connection between shortage of doctors and rise in administrative overhead. D'uh. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that. I'd long assumed a major, perhaps biggest, driver was guarantors ratcheting up administrative burden to reduce payouts. There's too many layers to this onion.

huitzitziltzin 5y ago
For question 1: Health economics - either sloane and hsieh OR bhattacharya, Hyde and tu are basic undergrad health Econ books. Health policy - feldstein health policy issues is something I have used. There is overlap in coverage there but health Econ and health policy are somewhat different classes. David cutler also has two worthwhile and short books: the quality cure and your money or your life. Both are good. Question 2: - more medical schools - more residency slots - no restrictions on foreign doctors practicing medicine here - price transparency - proper incentives for consumers to care about what provider they choose - no employer provided health insurance. This is a source of many many many problems. Probably more but that’s off the top of my head right now