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Monday, April 2, 2012

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Politico | The health reform ruling: Four likely scenarios
One day in June, the Supreme Court will declare whether President Barack Obama’s health care reform law is constitutional.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
CATO | In Opposing Obamacare, We Were Serious the Whole Time
“Can you create commerce in order to regulate it?” With those words, Justice Anthony Kennedy sent the legal establishment reeling.
Politico | The next health care frontier
Two years after the passage of “Obamacare,” the future of the health care system in the United States remains a central issue animating political debate.
NBER | Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important Is Forward Looking Behavior?
Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that employees who join an employer-provided health insurance plan later in the calendar year face the same initial ("spot") price of medical care but a higher expected end-of-year ("future") price than employees who join the same plan earlier in the year.