Comments on: BLOG: The RAND Health Experiment Reassessed In The New Wonk Review http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/10/18/blog-the-rand-health-experiment-reassessed-in-the-new-wonk-review/ The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:04:42 -0500 hourly 1 By: Health Affairs Blog http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/10/18/blog-the-rand-health-experiment-reassessed-in-the-new-wonk-review/comment-page-1/#comment-12162 Health Affairs Blog Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:03:50 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/10/18/blog-the-rand-health-experiment-reassessed-in-the-new-wonk-review/#comment-12162 [...] Sometimes the most interesting discussion on a blog goes on under the radar, in comments or other off-the-grid discussion. Chris Fleming’s passing reference to research revisiting the findings of the venerable RAND Health Insurance Experiment sparked a comment by Joseph Newhouse, the Harvard economist who has published repeated analyses of the RAND experiment throughout the past quarter-century. (Newhouse and colleagues’ response is to be published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.) John Nyman, the University of Minnesota economist whose work in the context of the Rand experiment was mentioned in Fleming’s original October posting, in turn posted a response to Newhouse and colleagues on his own Web page. Today Newhouse has posted yet another response to Nyman. He writes: “John Nyman argues that the effect on health care use and spending found in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment is an artifact of greater voluntary attrition in the cost sharing plans relative to the free care plan….His argument is implausible.” [...] [...] Sometimes the most interesting discussion on a blog goes on under the radar, in comments or other off-the-grid discussion. Chris Fleming’s passing reference to research revisiting the findings of the venerable RAND Health Insurance Experiment sparked a comment by Joseph Newhouse, the Harvard economist who has published repeated analyses of the RAND experiment throughout the past quarter-century. (Newhouse and colleagues’ response is to be published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.) John Nyman, the University of Minnesota economist whose work in the context of the Rand experiment was mentioned in Fleming’s original October posting, in turn posted a response to Newhouse and colleagues on his own Web page. Today Newhouse has posted yet another response to Nyman. He writes: “John Nyman argues that the effect on health care use and spending found in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment is an artifact of greater voluntary attrition in the cost sharing plans relative to the free care plan….His argument is implausible.” [...]

]]> By: Joseph Newhouse http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/10/18/blog-the-rand-health-experiment-reassessed-in-the-new-wonk-review/comment-page-1/#comment-12149 Joseph Newhouse Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:46:58 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/10/18/blog-the-rand-health-experiment-reassessed-in-the-new-wonk-review/#comment-12149 A more complete response to Nyman's critique is now posted on my home page, http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/people/hcp_core_faculty/joseph_newhouse/. The response is entitled "Refusal and Attrition in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment" and will be forthcoming in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. A more complete response to Nyman’s critique is now posted on my home page, http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/people/hcp_core_faculty/joseph_newhouse/. The response is entitled “Refusal and Attrition in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment” and will be forthcoming in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law.

]]> By: John Nyman http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/10/18/blog-the-rand-health-experiment-reassessed-in-the-new-wonk-review/comment-page-1/#comment-10607 John Nyman Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:07:01 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/10/18/blog-the-rand-health-experiment-reassessed-in-the-new-wonk-review/#comment-10607 A response to Newhouse et al.'s (2007) response is posted today at: http://www.hsr.umn.edu/People/regular/nyman/Nyman.htm A response to Newhouse et al.’s (2007) response is posted today at:

http://www.hsr.umn.edu/People/regular/nyman/Nyman.htm

]]> By: Joseph Newhouse http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/10/18/blog-the-rand-health-experiment-reassessed-in-the-new-wonk-review/comment-page-1/#comment-10330 Joseph Newhouse Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:48:06 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/10/18/blog-the-rand-health-experiment-reassessed-in-the-new-wonk-review/#comment-10330 A response to Nyman's critique will be posted today on my homepage http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/people/hcp_core_faculty/joseph_newhouse A response to Nyman’s critique will be posted today on my homepage http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/people/hcp_core_faculty/joseph_newhouse

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