Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“At long last, a concise but comprehensive, conversational, and accessible tour of modern health economics.
Better Health Economics is chock full of insights and covers an impressive range of important topics. This is how to teach health economics!" -- Amy Finkelstein | coauthor of "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care"
"An accessible, readable—and often funny!—tour through health economics. Gross and Notowidigdo are master teachers." -- Emily Oster | author of "Expecting Better: Why The Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong–And What You Really Need To Know"
"Gross and Notowidigdo prove that learning about the economics of health does not have to be a painful experience. Each of the chapters is an easy-to-swallow dose of insights into this complex and important part of our economy. Who knew this stuff could be fun?" -- Richard Thaler | winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Demand
1. What Does Health Insurance Do?
2. Health Insurance versus Broccoli
3. Free Care Is Not Free: Who Pays for the Uninsured?
4. Moral Hazard
5. Behavioral Economics
Part II: Supply
6. How Much Should Physicians Be Paid?
7. Doctors and Hospitals Respond to Financial Incentives (Just Like Everybody Else)
8. Payment Reform
9. Horizontal Mergers
10. Vertical Integration
11. Quality
12. Drugs
Part III: Other Determinants of Health
13. Contagion
14. Health Gradients
15. Social Determinants of Health
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
