Austin Frakt on NPR

By Harry Sit

Remember The Incidental Economist (TIE) who used to co-blog with me here? His real name is Austin Frakt. He’s famous now. His blog posts, which I still help host under his own domain name, have been cited in Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, and many other high profile places. He’s been quoted in Business Week twice. He got a 15-second sound byte on NPR today.

Congratulations, Austin!

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Posted on October 23, 2009 under News.

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  1. Austin Frakt on October 24, 2009
     

    @TFB – Thank you! Those were kind words. I’m glad you still read my posts.

    And to think, I’d still be toiling in obscurity, my policy-relevant work unknown to the world, if it hadn’t been for your invitation to co-blog with you back in March. That launched me into blogging and the rest is history. (So have you selected your next protege?)

    A note for your readers: I still have some personal finance content on my blog and that will continue. But my focus has moved to a more economics and health policy one. I also have a co-blogger who is an antitrust attorney and he’ll be educating us on legal matters. Your questions and thoughts are always welcome.

    See you in the blogosphere!

  2. John on October 28, 2009
     

    I had this running debate with this person some months ago over how to really, really reduce health care costs. I really, really, doubted whether a “medicare-for-all” plan would do the trick, since it addressed only the “coverage” side and not the “cost” side. I submitted that monopsony (his term, but appropriate) would not affect costs so long as pay-per-service dominated. I was also amused by this week’s “Sixty Minutes” hit piece on Medicare fraud. Increase the coverage, increase the fraud? I still submit the only really effective way to curb costs is to curb coverage, payments to providers, and procedures to “granny”. That’s a non-starter, so you folks age forty and under get ready to pay the price for my Medicare ear-lobe replacement.

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