health insurance – P.S. You Should Know…

The future of psychedelic medicine will be drugs you’ve never heard of.

January 30, 2022

I’m not sure I totally buy the author’s headline, but this is certainly a track companies pursue for a reason. The economics of selling plain ol’ mushrooms don’t seem as attractive as pharma reimbursed by health insurance. And maybe they’ll […]

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Discontinuities: where messy incentives make us do weird things

February 23, 2020

Late last year, finance forums had an uptick in people trying to figure out how to lose money. Why? They wanted to get below the income threshold for health insurance subsidy. Dan Luu’s post offers more details a handful of […]

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When your health insurer monitors your sleep.

December 9, 2018

“Millions of sleep apnea patients rely on CPAP breathing machines to get a good night’s rest. Health insurers use a variety of tactics, including surveillance, to make patients bear the costs. Experts say it’s part of the insurance industry playbook.” […]