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What health care can learn from forest preservation

Birju Rao
Policy
October 15, 2015

Health care providers and patients alike have been physically and emotionally frustrated when dealing with health care’s rising cost. Legislative restrictions based on cost often defy logic and common sense in a way that most people have never encountered. But what is it specifically about the health care market that gives us these fundamentally perverse situations? Many point fingers at insurance companies, big pharma, hospitals owned by private equity firms, …

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What health care can learn from forest preservation

Food deserts are incredibly complex problems

Birju Rao
Policy
October 27, 2013

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Recently, food has become the center of a revival of interest in cultures that make up Chicago.

The smells, tastes, sounds, and even atmospheres created by cuisine allow both tourists and native Chicagoans to sample our city’s diverse cultural heritage. As such, food has become an increasingly popular and a relatively inexpensive way to enjoy what Chicago has to offer. In fact, one …

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Food deserts are incredibly complex problems

A behavioral economics approach to solve obesity

Birju Rao
Policy
September 7, 2013

We have now entered a world where most the obviously good ideas are already taken. Someone has already invented the chair. Someone has already invented the desk. The spaces where innovation will occur now are in the crevices of where academic disciplines come together. By using paradigms from behavioral economics, I believe physicians and public health officials can navigate this uncharted interdisciplinary terrain to solve the U.S.’s current obesity problem.

In …

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A behavioral economics approach to solve obesity

What Detroit’s bankruptcy means for patients

Birju Rao
Policy
August 3, 2013

Detroit

On July 18th 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. Early estimates size up Detroit’s as the biggest in history with composite debt figures approaching the ballpark of $20 billion. Through the eyes of a clinician why should we care and what does this mean for our practices.

Detroit is dying.

While filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy may give the city an extra lifeline, …

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What Detroit’s bankruptcy means for patients

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