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Healthcare
Better Healthcare through Hospital Avoidance: A Path to Providing Healthcare in the Home
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August 9, 2021
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and outpatient clinics accounted for 99 percent of all medical visits. Though that share has dropped during the pandemic, it remains greater than 90 percent. However, in an increasingly distributed, digital world, providing an overwhelming share of health care in highly capital-intensive environments makes less and less sense.
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Home Healthcare: Removing Barriers to Innovation, Delivering More and Better Care
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August 9, 2021
Research
Can an App Comfort the Sick?
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August 11, 2021
Editorial
Regulation & Policy
Some Lessons from State and City Transportation Experiments
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August 9, 2021
US states and localities have implemented transportation policy reforms to improve the operation of their transportation systems. Some have relied on the private sector (through public-private partnerships, or PPPs) to lower costs and spur innovation. Not all these efforts have been successful. Moving forward, policymakers can learn from these experiences and potentially improve outcomes. Policymakers need to focus on the incentives that are built into public-private partnership contracts. Transportation outcomes can also be improved by reducing federal restrictions on state transportation funding.
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Don’t Expect a Big Impact from Washington’s Infrastructure Spending Binge
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August 10, 2021
Editorial
The United Federal Administrative Units of America?
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August 12, 2021
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The Billions Being Wasted in the Economic Development Subsidy Wars
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August 11, 2021
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Social Issues
Giving a Man a Fish Spurs Record Increase in Eating for a Day
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August 11, 2021
There is nothing so permanent as the temporary, so it is no surprise that the mainstream center-left has found, in the supposed emergency economic response to the pandemic, a model for a permanent solution to poverty: Just shower trillions of dollars of government cash on the poor.
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When Political Unity Becomes the Goal, Our Democracy Suffers
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August 9, 2021
Editorial
Despite the Hype, Don’t Expect Electric Vehicles to Run Gas-Guzzlers Off the Road
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August 12, 2021
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President Biden’s Electric Car Future Is Union Made
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August 11, 2021
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Delta Straussians Know How to Live with Covid
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August 10, 2021
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Podcasts
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Kate Judge and Anil Kashyap on How to Improve US Financial Stability
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August 9, 2021
Kathryn Judge is a professor of law at Columbia Law School and editor of the journal of Financial Regulation. Anil Kashyap is a professor of economics and finance at the University of Chicago and is a member of the Bank of England's financial policy committee. Kate and Anil join David on Macro Musings to discuss their work on the Task Force on Financial Stability that recently released a report on how to improve financial stability in the US.
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Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys
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August 11, 2021
Upon learning he was HIV positive in 1993, Andrew Sullivan began writing more than he ever had before. Believing that he didn’t have long to live, he wanted to leave behind a book detailing his best argument for refocusing the gay rights movement on marriage equality and military service. Three decades later and Sullivan has not only lived to see the book published, but also seen the ideas in it gain legal and cultural acceptance.
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Fortress and Frontier: Price Transparency in Healthcare
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August 13, 2021
Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, speaks with Dr. Keith Smith about his innovative pricing strategy at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and the economic theory behind those pricing decisions. Smith founded the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, where he works as an anesthesiologist. He is also co-founder of the Free Market Medical Association, whose mission is to promote transparency in healthcare and accelerate the speed and growth of the free market healthcare revolution.
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