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  • Doctor slashes the cost of surgeries for India's poor

    Fred de Sam Lazaro

    September 16, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: India, Bengaluru, Karnataka

    In a country where millions of citizens make less than $2 a day, a chain of hospitals has brought down the prices of life-saving surgeries and pioneered a health insurance plan that is just 11 cents a month. These hospitals, called Narayana Health Systems, are exemplified by their productivity, efficiency and volume of surgeries performed, far outstripping the rates of American hospitals. To prove that the same model could work in a developed country, the hospitals opened a location in the Cayman Islands, which proved to be vastly successful and offered hope that this model could continue to spread.

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  • How An Economist Helped Patients Find The Right Kidney Donors

    Nancy Shute

    June 11, 2015 |

    NPR |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    If you've got a life-threatening medical condition, your first call might not be to an economist. But Alvin Roth used a theory about matching markets to help connect kidney patients and donors.

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  • How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare?

    Stephen J. Dubner

    February 04, 2015 |

    Freakonomics |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Studying the outcomes of public health delivery can lack a scientific methodology. MIT economists have applied the methodology of randomized controlled trial (RCT) to study the effect of the Medicaid expansion plan in Oregon. These researchers look into how the new healthcare coverage affects clinical outcomes, emergency-room use, and employment.

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  • Serving the base of the pyramid: five tips from emerging-market experts

    Bruce Watson

    May 30, 2014 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Social Innovation Summit, hosted in New York City, examines five key elements that allow the strategy of marketing to the base of the pyramid to actually succeed, and the companies big and small that are leveraging this approach to sustainably break the cycle of poverty in varied industries for communities around the world.

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