The American health care system suffers from many misalignments of incentives, but one is particularly irksome: When individual patients make prudent decisions about their care, choosing reasonable ...

In our last issue, Steven Kelman of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government criticized cost-benefit analysis from the perspective not of economics but of ethical theory. He concluded that in health, ...

To address the gap between opportunity costs and cost-effectiveness thresholds, we must identify the marginal cost of a unit of health for health care systems. Amid efforts to reduce spending on ...

Readers, including health professionals, offer their analyses. To the Editor: Re “The Biggest Cause of High Health Care Spending,” by Zack Cooper (Opinion guest essay, May 7): As a physician, a health ...

A survey shows employers expect a sharp increase in benefit costs for next year, and many will want workers to shoulder more of the burden. By Reed Abelson Employees of large and small companies are ...

Double-digit health care cost increases are no longer a future concern — they're a present-day reality for employers of all sizes. Processing Content Across the board, benefit leaders are grappling ...

If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...