{"id":2688,"date":"2017-03-18T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T21:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2017-03-18T17:13:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T21:13:57","slug":"stupideconomics-and-healthcare-triage-on-the-ahca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2017\/03\/stupideconomics-and-healthcare-triage-on-the-ahca\/","title":{"rendered":"#stupideconomics and Healthcare Triage on the AHCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting links related to the recent Republican health care proposal called the AHCA.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a serious but also humorous Forbes article by my BU colleague Larry Kotlikoff in his series about Stupid Economics, this one targeting Tom Price and the AHCA bill. (A 3-minute read.)<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-headline ng-binding\" itemprop=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kotlikoff\/2017\/03\/17\/tom-prices-liver-and-the-coverage-they-want-stupid-economics\/#3b6668da1ff9\">Tom Price&#8217;s Liver And &#8216;The Coverage They Want&#8217;<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>The second is an excellent Youtube summary of the CBO forecasts (called \u201cscoring\u201d) of the effects of the AHCA by pediatrician Aaron Carroll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/healthcare-triage-results-are-in-congressional-budget-office-scores-the-american-health-care-act\/\"><strong>Healthcare Triage: Results Are In! Congressional Budget Office Scores the American Health Care Act<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted: 17 Mar 2017 06:09 AM PDT \u00a0Text of the report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/115th-congress-2017-2018\/costestimate\/americanhealthcareact_0.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Broadcast is eight minutes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting links related to the recent Republican health care proposal called the AHCA. The first is a serious but also humorous Forbes article by my BU colleague Larry Kotlikoff in his series about Stupid Economics, this one targeting Tom Price and the AHCA bill. (A 3-minute read.) Tom Price&#8217;s Liver And &#8216;The Coverage They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2017\/03\/stupideconomics-and-healthcare-triage-on-the-ahca\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#stupideconomics and Healthcare Triage on the AHCA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185,7238,7243,10933,72],"tags":[10930,10936,252,10938,10935],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}