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If health care seems confusing and inefficient, I want to help you understand “WHY??” and fuel your efforts to combat that! For professionals or just engaged thinkers, these fun, monthly lessons connect you to the economics driving health care to sharpen your insights and to give you the tools to really improve healthcare, wherever you are: in the medical industry, involved in policy research and implementation, or as a citizen. Subscribe to get full access to the current lesson and archives of previous topics.

Every month is two lessons. The first is called the “Pandemic Minute” which illustrates an economic lesson through the wild and often quirky forces of the pandemic. The second lesson is a 3-4 point discussion of a larger fundamental force working on the health care system, such as insurance or long term decison-making. There are links to deeper discussions on some issues if you want to delve further.

My goal is to connect your day-to-day work and/or policy interests to the bigger picture to help you critically analyze the next policy argument you encounter. (Or, at least as I tell my students, to “help you not sound like a fool!”).

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Dr. Tina Marsh Dalton is a health economist who wants to help answer "WHY?" to all interesting (or frustrating) issues in healthcare. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota.