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The Death of Health Insurers? Don't Start the Funeral Just Yet

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on February 20, 2012

In late January, just after my fellow instructors and I had led our students at the U-M School of Public Health in a discussion of the complexity of health coverage, and the difficulty of actually doing what health insurers do given the American system of financing health care, the New York times ran an opinion piece by Ezekiel Emanuel and Jeffrey Liebman that started like this:

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The Facts: Timing Matters

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on February 6, 2012

Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on some research that would make anyone who is trying to inform public policy lose sleep.  The story described just how impervious to the facts people often are in their assessments of data relevant to public policy.

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