Blogs from the NYU Wagner Community

Category: Insurance

    • 02/28/2013
      What’s Going On With Health Care Costs?
      Posted by Joel Wittman Egads!  Is it truly possible?  Has the increase in health care costs been at its lowest in almost four decades?  And this in spite of the Baby Boomer generation fast approaching retirement age?  What could account for such a phenomenon and is it sustainable?  All relevant questions that have health care experts scratching their heads in search of answers and have politicians scrambling to enact programs to further the slow down in the increase in health care costs.
      – Wagner Health Policy and Management Program Blog
    • 02/04/2013
      Do Health Care and Profits Mix?
      Posted by: Joel Wittman  The debate continues: can a social service such as health care operate in a profit-generating mode?  Undoubtedly, there are fierce opinions on both the pro and con aspects of this question.
      – Wagner Health Policy and Management Program Blog