Using the Standard Gamble to Make Difficult Tradeoffs in Health Decisions
March 6th, 2016
Tradeoffs in healthcare can be very hard. The Standard Gamble is here to help.
How Headspace Hacked Social Proof
September 4th, 2015
Examples of what they’ve done exceptionally well — and the one flaw I’d change.
A Behavioral Lens on Being Mortal
July 4th, 2015
What would you be willing to trade to live for two more months? Would you risk paralysis of your lower body? Would you go on a feeding tube? Or would you rather accept death? These are the difficult choices that face many patients and their caregivers. In Being Mortal, Dr. Atul Gawande argues
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Why We’re Bad at Math and Have Diabetes
April 5th, 2015
We’ve been hunter-gatherers for 99% of our history. We used to walk between five and ten miles a day, consume five pounds of sugar each year, and scour all day for sources of fat. We craved calorie-rich foods and our bodies figured out how to store energy to survive frequent bouts of famine. We
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A First Look at Competition and Price on the Federal Health Exchange Marketplace
November 16th, 2014
The federal health insurance exchanges launched in 2013 to a modestly encouraging but tepid insurer response. Anxious at the prospect of developing consumer insurance products to be sold through a relatively untested channel and targeted at a challenging demographic, many large insurers adopted a wait and see approach. While the marketplaces exceeded enrollment targets and
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