Category: Healthcare

  • How Headspace Hacked Social Proof

    Examples of what they’ve done exceptionally well — and the one flaw I’d change.


  • A Behavioral Lens on Being Mortal

      What would you be willing to trade to live for two more months? Would you risk paralysis of your lower body? Would you go on a feeding tube?  Or would you rather accept death?   These are the difficult choices that face many patients and their caregivers.  In Being Mortal, Dr. Atul Gawande argues…


  • A First Look at Competition and Price on the Federal Health Exchange Marketplace

    The federal health insurance exchanges launched in 2013 to a modestly encouraging but tepid insurer response.  Anxious at the prospect of developing consumer insurance products to be sold through a relatively untested channel and targeted at a challenging demographic, many large insurers adopted a wait and see approach.  While the marketplaces exceeded enrollment targets and…