Healthcare Economist

The Elasticity of Pharmaceutical Innovation

That is the title of a new USC white paper by Darren Filson, Karen Van Nuys, Dar...

Number of US caregivers increases from 18 to 24 million

That is according to a paper by Wolff et al. (2025). They use 2011-2022 data fro...

Number of US caregivers increases form 18 to 24 million

That is according to a paper by Wolff et al. (2025). They use 2011-2022 data fro...

NHS England will be abolished

As reported by the BBC: NHS England will be abolished and brought under “democra...

What is the Critical Medicines Act?

On Tuesday (11 March 2025) the European Commission presented the draft of its ne...

Why are U.S. healthcare costs so high?

The Incidental Economist website has a helpful explainer video. The truth is tha...

Do US commercial payers consider HTA and economic evide...

That is the question asked in a new paper by Enright, et al. (2025). The authors...

Calculating Social Vulnerability Index by ZIP Code

A paper by Ng, Zhang and Kowal (2025) use the American Community Survey (ACS) da...

Value-Based Pricing for Drugs With Uncertain Clinical B...

This is the title of a recent paper by Jiao et al. (2025). Previous studies (e.g...

About face for RFK Jr. on MMR vaccine?

Last month, I noted that the decrease in vaccination rates has likely resulted i...

The value of knowing is not always positive

An interesting article by Ciancio et al. (2025) which examines the impact of lea...

More evidence that there are diminishing marginal retur...

A paper by Johnson et al. (2024) conduct a discrete-choice experiment (DCE) in o...

Quotation of the Day

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done a...

What is Project IDEATE?

How best can you design an outcomes based agreement (OBA)? What are the key fact...

Can the NIH replace all private sector clinical R&D?

A paper by Proudman et al. (2024) finds that doing so would be extremely expensi...

Vaccine choice = more measles infection

Texas is moving to allow for more freedom of choice with respect to receipt of v...

Healthcare Economist named a top 100 Economics blog

In Feedspot’s 2025 ranking of economics blogs, Healthcare Economist was once aga...

LLM in HEOR: An evaluation framework

Health economics and outcomes research has already started to use AI tools such ...

Why don’t more people take up public services for which...

One reason are the administrative obstacles and frictions that eligible individu...

Comparing Regulatory and Health Technology Assessment R...

That is the subtitle of a paper by Vreman et al. (2020). The authors look at all...

Public vs. Private Sector R&D Investments

In 2011, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded discoveries contributed $69 ...

How long until widespread AI use comes to health systems?

The answer to this question depends, not only on how well AI tools work, but als...

Will the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation increase innov...

Chuanzi Yue and Marisa Miraldo argue in a recent Health Affairs Forefront piece ...

Which states have the most and least progressive tax sy...

That is the questions an NBER working paper by Fleck, Heathcote, Storesletten, a...

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