New from me: Administrative burdens are bad for your health.
We spend a lot of time dealing with health care paperwork hassles. A new wave of research shows how that leads to more psychological costs and less health care.
Plz read and share.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administrati…
We spend a lot of time dealing with health care paperwork hassles. A new wave of research shows how that leads to more psychological costs and less health care.
Plz read and share.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administrati…
The thing about being one of the lucky Americans with health insurance is that you are also your own health care administrator.
How much time do we spend on these tasks? The equivalent of about $22 billion. 2/ donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administrati…
How much time do we spend on these tasks? The equivalent of about $22 billion. 2/ donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administrati…
The $22 billion we spend on health care hassles is only a measure of the direct cost of our time. The resulting stress and frustrations lead to another $26 billion in workplace absences, and productivity losses of about $96 billion. 3/ journals.aom.org/doi/epub/10.54…
Heath care administrative burdens are incredibly common. A new nationally representative study by @afrakt & @michaelannica finds that 3 out of 4 of people dealt with them in the last year. Almost 1 in 4 reported delayed or forgone care as a result. 4/ donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administrati…
Health policy scholars have traditionally thought that some frictions are a good way to limit care to those who truly need it. But recent research instead suggests that burdens fall hardest on the most needy. 5/ donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administrati…
This piece was inspired by a conversation with @nataliesurely least year, which I cite, but you should read. The key point is that we largely don't account for the costs of health care burdens on individuals, esp. psychological costs. 6/ thenation.com/article/societ…
Also inspired by the researchers breaking new ground that we cite: @harald_tweets @PoliSciBell @MartinBaekgaard @JeffreyPfeffer @HilaryHoynes @AditiVasan @afrakt @michaelannica and many others. 7/
I'd love to hear about people's experiences with health care administrative burdens so I opened the comments.
What has gone badly (or well!) for you with your interactions with insurers and providers? How did it make you feel? 8/ donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administrati…
What has gone badly (or well!) for you with your interactions with insurers and providers? How did it make you feel? 8/ donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administrati…
As always with anything I write about administrative burden, it reflects a collaboration w @pamela_herd including many of the particular papers cited healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb…
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