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What If People Don’t Care?

http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/04/what-if-people-dont-care.html

The Rabbit Hole

http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/04/the-rabbit-hole.html

The Republican Individual Mandate?

http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/04/the-republican-individual-mandate.html

Another way to look at the mandate

http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/03/another-way-to-look-at-the-mandate.html

The Mandate is About Social Justice

http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/03/as-a-follow-up-to-my-post-yesterday-i-want-to-note-thatim-fairly-hesitant-to-say-that-this-or-that-argumentconsideration-ca.html

Frakt, Aaron, and Alito on Externalities and the Mandate
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/03/externalities-mandate.html

Kenneth Arrow and the Overdemandingness Argument for Discounting Future Health Benefits
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/03/the-overdemandingness-argument-for-discounting.html

A Clue to What Weinstein and Stason Were Thinking
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/03/weinstein-and-stason-on-time-discounting-a-follow-up.html

A Critique of Weinstein & Stason’s Consistency Argument for Time-Discounting (wonky)
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/03/consistency-arguments-for-time-discounting-health-benefits.html

Gaps in the Recent Infanticide Argument
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/03/a-gap-in-the-infanticide-argument.html

Infanticide and the thing about philosophical argument
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/03/bioethics-and-the-thing-about-philosophical-arguments.html

Understanding DALYs
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/02/understanding-dalys.html

Gawande, Flansbaum, and Taylor on How We Die
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/01/gawande-flansbaum-and-taylor-on-how-we-die.html

Before the ACP Ethics Manual, there was the Physician Charter
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/01/before-the-acp-ethics-manual-there-was-the-physicians-charter.html

Prohibiting Anti-Smoker Hiring Policies is Not “Leveling Down”
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/01/prohibiting-anti-smoking-hiring-policies-is-not-leveling-down.html

May Employers Ethically Refuse to Hire Smokers?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/01/should-employers-be-allowed-to-ban-smokers-.html

So you want to think more about rationing…
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/01/so-you-want-to-think-more-about-rationing.html

Medical Necessity and the Risk Society
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/01/medical-necessity-and-the-risk-society.html

Rationing and the American College of Physicians Ethics Manual
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/01/rationing-and-the-american-college-of-physicians-ethics-manual.html

Locating Values in Health Care Policy Decision Making
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/01/locating-values-in-health-care-policy.html

Private Charity as a Public Good?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2012/01/private-charity-as-a-public-good.html

A worse than useless survey
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/12/a-worse-than-useless-survey.html

Plan B and Physicians’ Gatekeeper Role
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/12/plan-b.html

Is Rawls Relevant in a Warming World?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/11/is-rawls-relevant-in-a-warming-world.html

When the high price of health care is a good thing
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/11/when-the-high-price-of-health-is-a-good-thing.html

Does ACA entail that health care is not a right?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/11/does-aca-entail-that-health-care-is-not-a-right.html

Is it misanthropic to prevent individuals from existing?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/11/is-it-misanthropic-to-prevent-individuals-from-existing.html

The morality of health-care priority-setting
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/11/the-most-cited-thought-experiment-in-moral-and-political-philosophy.html

Mankiw vs. Nozick on Just Deserts
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/11/mankiw-nozick-on-productive-contributions.html

A Population Health Fallacy
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/10/a-population-health-fallacy.html

Not all gradients are created the same
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/10/not-all-gradients-are-created-the-same.html

What kind of mobility matters?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/10/what-kind-of-mobility-matters.html

The Health Gradient and Health Behaviors
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/10/the-health-gradient-and-health-behaviors.html

DeLong’s Ad Hominem Against Libertarianism
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/10/delong-on-nozick.html

Keeping GINA in the Bottle
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/10/keeping-gina-in-the-bottle.html

Scanlon on Libertarianism
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/10/scanlon-on-libertarianism.html

Loyalty Cards and Public Health
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/10/loyalty-cards-and-public-health.html

How to Explain the Point of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/10/how-to-explain-the-point-of-cost-effectiveness-analysis-1.html

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and the doctors are below the average
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/where-all-the-women-are-strong-all-the-men-are-good-looking-and-the-doctors-are-below-the-average.html

Do Physician Earnings in the U.S. Offset the Costs of Medical Education?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/do-physician-earnings-offset-the-costs-of-medical-education-.html

Do U.S. Physicians Earn More? Yes and No.
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/international-comparisons-in-physicians-earnings-.html

Self-Rule and Mutual Concern
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/self-rule-and-mutual-concern.html

Beware the share
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/beware-the-share.html

Three Arguments for the Individual Mandate
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/three-arguments-for-the-individual-mandate.html

Tax Facts
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/tax-facts.html

Paul Starr: GOP Presidential Candidate?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/paul-starr-gop-presidential-candidate.html

Welfare Economics — A Follow-up
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/welfare-economics-a-followup.html

Bachmann’s Other Argument Against the HPV Vaccine
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/bachmann-on-the-hpv-vaccine.html

Free to choose
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/free-to-choose.html

Moral hazard as collateral damage?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/moral-hazard-as-collateral-damage.html

Why I Picked On Welfare Economics
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/thoughts-on-welfare-economics.html

A Case of the Claps
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/a-case-of-the-claps.html

Chart of the Day
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/chart-of-the-day.html

Beta-Blocker Followup
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/beta-blocker-followup.html

What’s in a frame?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/whats-in-a-frame.html

Handwashing, Beta Blockers, and the High Cost of U.S. Health Care
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/handwashing-beta-blockers-and-the-high-cost-of-us-health-care.html

Denying the Baseline
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/09/going-baseline.html

Carroll and Fried on Physician Rationing
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/08/carroll-and-fried-on-physician-rationing.html

Taylor’s Second Law of Health Policy
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/08/taylors-law.html

Search Friction and Adverse Selection
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/08/search-friction-and-adverse-selection.html

Physician Profit and the Rule of Rescue
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/08/payment-systems-and-the-rule-of-rescue.html

Income Inequality, Race, and Population Health
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/08/income-inequality-and-population-health.html

The Benefits of Mammograms for Women in Their 40s.
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/the-benefits-of-mammograms-in-ones-40s.html

The WHO Definition of Health
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/the-who-definition-of-health.html

What Do Americans Believe About Fairness and Health?
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/what-do-americans-believe-about-fairness-and-health.html

Emergency Contraception and the Definition of Pregnancy
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/contraception-and-the-metaphysics-of-pregnancy.html

Tax Rates, Health Spending, and the Budget
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/taxes-and-the-long-term-budget-outlook.html

Should we count everything?: Thoughts on Pollack and Meltzer
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/should-we-count-everything.html

Justifying Social Insurance
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/on-friday-i-stressed-the-need-for-compelling-rationales-in-favor-of-forcing-some-to-subsidize-the-health-insurance-of-others.html

Insurance Subsidies and Tax Expenditures — ctd.
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/insurance-subsidies-and-tax-expenditures-ctd.html

Insurance Subsidies and Tax Expenditures
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/insurance-subsidies-and-tax-expenditures.html

Poverty and Responsibility for Health
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/poverty-and-responsibility-for-health.html

Burning the Candle of Justice at Both Ends
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/burning-the-candle-of-justice-at-both-ends.html

Political Institutions, Sacred and Unsacred
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/bruce-bartlett-has-an-excellent-post-out-today-on-margaret-thatchers-conservative-bone-fides-especially-when-it-comes-to-tax.html

Philosophy and Wonkery in the Defense of Health Care Reform
http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/something-not-unlike-rese/2011/07/there-is-some-buzz-this-week-about-theodore-marmors-contribution-to-the-excellent-set-of-essays-in-the-current-issue-of-journ.html