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Best of Open Health: Section 361, CDC Overreach, and Congress
Congress should investigate the CDC's misuse of a nearly 80-year-old law to justify an unprecedented expansion of its authority.
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Bobbi Herzberg
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Tad DeHaven
Cheer up, folks!
There's a big victory for a smaller government that you’re not celebrating.
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Markus Bjoerkheim
November 2023
Precision Policy: How Big Data is Reshaping U.S. Healthcare
Editor's Note: This week's blog post is a guest contribution from Ali Melad, who brings us his perspective on the role of big data in U.S. health…
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ali melad
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Less Vaping, More Smoking
The Predictable Effect of Flavored E-cigarette Restrictions
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Liam Sigaud
Minimum-Staff Requirements Will Help Some Nursing Home Residents
Payment and Regulatory Reform Would Do More
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Markus Bjoerkheim
October 2023
The Eye of the Hurricane
On Risk, the Good Life, and Public Policy
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Michael Brodrick
The long CON: Are certificate-of-need laws helping or hurting rural healthcare?
Our forthcoming research indicates that repealing CON laws increases the number of hospitals, including in rural areas
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Vitor Melo
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Liam Sigaud
Kaiser Permanente strikers have a point
Healthcare workforce shortages are bad — here’s what can help
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Liam Sigaud
Controlling Healthcare Costs: Will Shaming and Coercing Hospitals Work?
The fight to contain healthcare costs requires more than coercion.
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September 2023
Weighing the Benefits
Would a Patent Buyout for Ozempic Slim Healthcare Expenditures?
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Markus Bjoerkheim
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Controversies Scientific and Moral
In a recent piece in Discourse, I called attention to diverse moral communities whose distinct visions of the good life limit the moral authority of…
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Michael Brodrick
Will cash heal the homeless?
If you read the earlier post Cash as Medicine?, you know that I think giving the poor more say in how we help them is potentially one of the most…
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Markus Bjoerkheim
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