Category: Healthcare
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How Headspace Hacked Social Proof
Examples of what they’ve done exceptionally well — and the one flaw I’d change.
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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…
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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…