If Broccoli Were Like Health Insurance

by Austin Frakt
Politics

By Jen Sorensen and via Kevin Outterson.

[Cross-posted at The Incidental Economist]

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt is a health economist and an assistant professor at Boston University's School of Medicine and School of Public Health. He blogs at The Incidental Economist.