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Tobin Center Supports Pricing Nature Podcast
September 7th, 2021. Part of our emerging climate portfolio, the Tobin Center is supporting Pricing Nature, a podcast that tells a story about the economics, politics, and history of carbon pricing, which many argue should play a critical role in any national climate policy. Pricing Nature features conversations with carbon pricing experts from government, academia, and civil society.
NYT quotes Tobin’s Cooper on Inconsistent Pricing at Hospitals
August 22th, 2021. Tobin’s Zack Cooper gives his thoughts on new hospital data showing hospital prices negotiated by private insurers. The data shows examples of major health insurers negotiating unfavorable rates for their customers; some insured patients are paying more than the cash rate.
CDC Features Tobin-supported Research on Childcare Provider Vaccine Uptake
August 13th, 2021
NPR: Tobin's Cooper Hospital Merger Cost to Communities, Biden Actions, and Taking "1% steps" for Change
July 20th, 2021
Washington Post: Tobin’s Professor Cooper on Biden Order to Enforce Hospital Price Transparency
July 12th, 2021
New York Times: "Buoyed by Federal Covid Aid, Big Hospital Chains Buy Up Competitors"
May 21st, 2021. The pandemic barely dented the financial outlook for some major hospital networks, which continued to acquire weaker hospitals and ailing doctors’ practices. Critics worry consolidation leads to higher prices for medical care. Zack Cooper, a health economist at Yale's Tobin Center, has been researching consolidation (horizontal and vertical) in health care and is interviewed for this New York Times article. Professor Cooper has been advising policy-makers on evidence-based steps for reform to address hospital concentration and rising consolidation in the U.S. as part of his 1% Steps for Health Care Reform Project.
Spectrum News: Tobin Webtool Brings Nursing Home Risk Data a Live for Public Health Leaders.
April 15th, 2021
NPR: Vaccines at Dollar General Would Boost Access, Equity Shows Tobin-supported Study
April 8th, 2021
Freakonomics Radio: "Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All?"
April 7th, 2021. Kidney failure is such a catastrophic (and expensive) disease that Medicare covers treatment for anyone, regardless of age. Since Medicare reimbursement rates are fairly low, the dialysis industry had to find a way to tweak the system if they wanted to make big profits. They succeeded. This podcast includes interviews with Yale's health care economist, Zack Cooper.
McKnight's: New Tobin Resource Helps Nursing Homes Understand, Avoid Infection Risk.
April 7th, 2021
Freakonomics Radio: "How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare"
Marce 31st, 2021. Medicine has evolved from a calling into an industry, adept at dispensing procedures and pills (and gigantic bills), but less good at actual health. Most reformers call for big, bold action. What happens if, instead, you think small? Yale economist, Zack Cooper, discusses the U.S. health system, his research, and the 1% Steps for Health Care Reform Project.
Politico: "The ‘Green Energy’ That Might Be Ruining the Planet"
March 26th, 2021. Politico quotes Yale and Tobin economist Steven Berry regarding Biomass Power
Creating a New Healthcare: “Reducing the Costs of American Healthcare – One Percent at a Time, with Zack Cooper, PhD”
March 25th, 2021. The focus of this interview is on a solution created by Yale Economists to address the rising & unsustainable costs of healthcare in our country. Most of us are aware that healthcare costs are a problem, but our guest today – Zack Cooper – argues the cost of healthcare is actually devastating to American workers & families. This is an extraordinary story of a ‘scholar-activist’ who is reframing the field of healthcare economics and utilizing evidence-based, scientific methodology to build solutions to lower the staggering costs of healthcare.
MarketWatch: "People Don't Shop for Health Care the Way they Shop for Other Services."
March 3, 2021
Scientific American: "Nursing Home Workers Had One of the Deadliest Jobs of 2020"
February 19, 2021
YaleNews: "Yale-led Project Offers Proposals to Fix U.S. Health System One Problem at a Time"
February 10, 2021
NPR: "Hospitals Forced To Be More Transparent About Pricing. Will That Save You Money?"
January 5th, 2021
The New Yorker: "What the San Francisco Bay Area Can Teach Us About Fighting a Pandemic"
January 4th, 2021
NPR: "Congress Acts To Spare Consumers From Costly Surprise Medical Bills"
December 22, 2020
Yale Daily News: "Tobin Center Research Informs Economic Debate During Pandemic"
October 26th, 2020
Wall Street Journal: Landmark Tobin-Supported Study Finds Childcare Not Contributing to COVID-19 Spread
October 14th, 2020
New York Times: Zack Cooper on the Need for Federal Government to Lead COVID-19 Response
October 9th, 2020
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October 2020
September 2020
- New York Times: "How Companies Are Getting Speedy Coronavirus Tests for Employe…
- New York Times: "Fauci Warns Coronavirus Could Disrupt Life Well Into New Year"
- New York Times: "Do Jobless Benefits Deter Workers? Some Employers Say Yes. Stu…
- New York Times: "‘They Call Me a Criminal’: Nursing Home Workers Who May Spread…
July 2020
- Wall Street Journal: "Is $600 a Week in Extra Unemployment Aid Deterring People…
- YaleNews: "Yale Study Finds Expanded Jobless Benefits Did Not Reduce Employment"
- Vox: "Economists Say Congress Should Think Big on the Next Rescue Package"
- CBS News: "It's Been a Record 11 Years Since the Last Increase in U.S. Minimum …
- Politico: "If You Want to Save the Economy, Stop the Pandemic"
- "U.S. Urban Crime Trends During Covid-19"
June 2020
- NYT: "Two Friends in Texas Were Tested for Coronavirus. One Bill Was $199. The …
- NYT: "Employer-Based Health Care, Meet Massive Unemployment"
- Bloomberg: "U.S. June Jobless Rate Falls 2 Percentage Points in Yale Survey"
- YaleNews: "Yale Labor Survey Tracks U.S. Labor Markets in Real Time"
- YaleNews: "Study Shows Pandemic’s Impact on Hours Worked in U.S. Small Business…
- ProPublica: "How Rich Investors, Not Doctors, Profit From Marking Up ER Bills"
- NYT: "Hospitals Got Bailouts and Furloughed Thousands While Paying C.E.O.s Mil…
- Panel: COVID-19 Social Science Research Opportunities
May 2020
- WSJ: "Ill-Timed Health-Care Buyouts Bruise KKR and Blackstone"
- Tobin Center’s Wilkinson and former Governor Martin O’Malley to Discuss Covid-…
- Panel: New Datasets for COVID-19 and other Social Science Research
- In Progress: A Tool to Help Policymakers Safely Re-open the Economy
- Podcast: Yale Economist Zack Cooper Tells CBS News Much Is Needed to Revive the…
- Social Science Researchers Engage Students in Social and Policy Questions Rais…
- "We can scale up testing. We’re just waiting on the government to agree."
April 2020
- "How Do You Reopen a Country?": Faculty Director of the Tobin Center, Zack Coop…
- Upcoming Event: COVID-19 Social Science Research Opportunities for Students
- The Economist: Politicians in America and Europe scramble to help small firms
- The Economist: Politicians in America and Europe scramble to help small firms
- "The Second COVID-themed Dean's Virtual Workshop Highlights Community Partners…
- Tobin Center Advises on Rockefeller Foundation Reopening Plan
- Yale School of Medicine Dean's Workshop Featuring Dave Wilkinson
- In conversation: Yale’s Tobin Center addresses economic challenges of the pande…
- COVID-19: Investment and Federal Leadership to Open The Economy and Prevent a S…
- Forbes: "A New Study Suggests You May Want To Rethink That MBA"
- NPR Planet Money: Tobin's Zack Cooper on the Economics of Hospital Beds
- Washington Center for Equitable Growth: "Two Things State and Local Governments…
- Yale's Giuseppe Moscarini on Managing Roiling Labor Markets