1+ hour, 22+ min ago  (257+ words) Charles N. Kahn III A Cost Shift, Nota Cost Cure Cost-Sharing Has a Right Dose Which means wemustget cost-sharingright. Set where it sharpenspurchasing, it builds the cost-consciousness the system needs; turned into a blunt instrument for cost-shifting, it penalizes the people…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago  (257+ words) Charles N. Kahn III A Cost Shift, Nota Cost Cure Cost-Sharing Has a Right Dose Which means wemustget cost-sharingright. Set where it sharpenspurchasing, it builds the cost-consciousness the system needs; turned into a blunt instrument for cost-shifting, it penalizes the people…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (249+ words) It is hard to square this perspective with the growing number of reports which'use the disparaged'pricing'datasets to'document'how poorly insurers and ESI plans are at protecting workers and patients from needlessly'high prices. The critics also'fail to'mention that it is high overall…...

1+ hour, 31+ min ago  (667+ words) A quiet but continuing worldwide collapse in fertility levels has swept the globe. Most regions of the world are now characterized by sub-replacement fertility1, and every region of the world has at least some sub-replacement outposts. Steep and prolonged fertility decline…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (409+ words) Lower courts can spend years interpreting the ramifications of US Supreme Court decisions that settle some constitutional matters, leave others unresolved, and never reach arguably adjacent yet distinct statutory questions. That's happening with the Court's 2024 ruling in Moody v. Net Choice,…...

23+ hour, 47+ min ago  (396+ words) I think, too, of the men who guided my science projects in Houston; those who answered endless questions and treated a young person's curiosity as something worth taking seriously. None of them were obligated to. All of them did it…...

1+ day, 40+ min ago  (173+ words) Leaving aside relatively high energy import costs in the wake of the US-Iran war, there appear to be two main drivers of Japanese currency weakness. The first is a high-interest rate differential in favor of the US dollar that favors…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (286+ words) In a few weeks, Americans across the country will mark the nation's 250th birthday. A time of celebration, yes, but also a time to reflect on the founders' contributions and how their work informs us today. To this end, AEI inaugurated…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (336+ words) Can the government force journalists to disclose their use of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools to help compose or create news stories? Would such a transparency mandate'one aimed at promoting trust in journalism (Gen AI models sometimes hallucinate) and…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (245+ words) Economics is full of counterintuitive insights. Rent control can make housing less affordable. Business failures can strengthen an economy. And, yes, higher demand can sometimes lower prices. That's a possibility worth remembering in the ongoing debates over data centers and…...