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David Dranove

Highland Park
As seen in: Psychology Today, MarketWatch, Kellogg Insight, The Insightful Leader, Health Affairs, National Bureau of Economic Research, The Health Care Blog (THCB), Law & Liberty, Competition Policy International
who is most notably a poop-joke writer
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Expecting Harm? The Impact of Rural Hospital Acquisitions on Maternal Health Care

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By David Dranove, Martin Gaynor, Eilidh Geddes
| National Bureau of Economic Research
Skip to main content We thank Juan Pablo Atal, Farasat Bokhari, Daniel Dench, Leemore Dafny, Atul Gupta, Kai-Uwe Kuhn, Yossi Spiegel, and Becky Staiger for helpful comments. We also thank seminar participants at the UGA Health Brownbag, IIOC, ASHEcon, SUNY Binghamton, University of Pennsylvania, ASSA Annnual Meetings, AHEC, the Centre for Competition Policy Annual Conference, and the Highlands Health Economics Symposium.
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Podcast: When a Healthcare Expert Becomes a Patient

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By David Dranove, insights ofDavid Dranove
| Kellogg Insight
When healthcare economist David Dranove noticed blood in his urine, he wasn’t immediately concerned: hematuria had several causes, many of which were benign. Dranove, a professor of strategy at Kellogg, would later learn he had bladder cancer. Seeking treatment was anything but simple—which, for a healthcare economist, speaks volumes about the complexity of the market.
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Podcast: American Healthcare-Is This the Best We Can Do?

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By Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove, Amanda Starc
| The Insightful Leader
So far, we’ve discussed hospitals and physicians, insurers and pharmaceutical companies, all of which, in their own way, are incentivized to drive up our healthcare costs in ways that don’t always make us healthier. But there’s another player who fits the bill, perhaps the most important player of all: patients. Patient demand for frivolous tests, fancy lobbies, and convenient scheduling options also contributes to rising healthcare costs.
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