Zarek Brot
@zarekcb.bsky.social
Assistant professor at University of Chicago, Harris Public Policy. Occasional raconteur at NBER/Chicago Fed. Health care policy “expert.” https://sites.google.com/site/zarekcb/
NYTimes: mobsters absolutely hate anti-racketeering enforcement! Government is using AI to crack down on a subset of crimes, mobsters are worried this could be a “slippery slope” towards using it more broadly!
September 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
NYTimes: mobsters absolutely hate anti-racketeering enforcement! Government is using AI to crack down on a subset of crimes, mobsters are worried this could be a “slippery slope” towards using it more broadly!
Reposted by Zarek Brot
August 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
selecting on the dependent variable
March 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
selecting on the dependent variable
This great article by Betsy Cliff (tradeoffs.org/2023/10/03/p...) discussed our recent paper about prior auth of drugs.
She makes a point I feel strongly about: PA is not ideal, but the alternatives are 1) cost sharing, which is worse; or 2) do nothing and let premiums explode, which is bad too.
She makes a point I feel strongly about: PA is not ideal, but the alternatives are 1) cost sharing, which is worse; or 2) do nothing and let premiums explode, which is bad too.
October 3, 2023 at 2:14 PM
This great article by Betsy Cliff (tradeoffs.org/2023/10/03/p...) discussed our recent paper about prior auth of drugs.
She makes a point I feel strongly about: PA is not ideal, but the alternatives are 1) cost sharing, which is worse; or 2) do nothing and let premiums explode, which is bad too.
She makes a point I feel strongly about: PA is not ideal, but the alternatives are 1) cost sharing, which is worse; or 2) do nothing and let premiums explode, which is bad too.