transport patients and have strong preferences for certain hospitals. Being admitted to a hospital with two standard deviations …

patients, providers and the economy. We find strong evidence that the ACA's provisions have increased insurance coverage. There …

information and medical knowledge among patients, an enormous number of health policies are focused on patient education. In this … campaigns. To do so, we compare the care received by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on … health care service efficacy--i.e., physicians as patients--with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various …

the structure of liability rules in the Military Heath System. Active-duty patients seeking treatment from military … facilities and to all patients--active-duty or not--that receive care from civilian facilities. Drawing on this variation and …

no evidence of a decrease in the quality of hospitals used by patients. The basic results hold even for the sickest … patients, suggesting that limited network plans are saving money by directing care towards primary care and away from …