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If You Would Not Criminalize Poverty, Do Not Medicalize It, William M. Sage, Jennifer E. Laurin
If You Would Not Criminalize Poverty, Do Not Medicalize It, William M. Sage, Jennifer E. Laurin
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American society tends to medicalize or criminalize social problems. Criminal justice reformers have made arguments for a positive role in the relief of poverty that are similar to those aired in healthcare today. The consequences of criminalizing poverty caution against its continued medicalization.
Ideology Meets Reality: What Works And What Doesn't In Patient Exposure To Health Care Costs, Christopher Robertson, Victor Laurion
Ideology Meets Reality: What Works And What Doesn't In Patient Exposure To Health Care Costs, Christopher Robertson, Victor Laurion
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U.S. policymakers, scholars, and advocates have long displayed an ideological commitment to exposing insured patients to substantial out-of-pocket expenses. These commitments derive from both overt political ideologies, which favor individual responsibility and oppose redistribution of wealth and risks, as well as more-subtle ideological commitments of academic economists, which link observed patterns of consumption to value-claims about welfare. In this symposium contribution, we document those ideological commitments and juxtapose them with a review of the scientific evidence about the actual effects of patient cost-sharing. We find, as economic theory predicts, that patients exposed to healthcare costs consume less healthcare. However, a …