Price insensitivity for branded EpiPen
Phil Ruder, Pacific University
This exercise asks student teams to select the most important reason that consumers are insensitive to price changes in the branded EpiPen epinephrine auto-injector based on a before-class reading of a news article ...

Monopoly Power under Pharmaceutical Patents
Carlena Ficano, Hartwick College
In this activity, students are asked to identify which among five pharmaceutical patent policy options they believe would be most likely to improve long term societal well being, with the policy options ranging ...

Health Care Policy Applications: Addressing the Inefficiency of the U.S. Health System
Alan Green, Stetson University
Policy choices pertaining to the problems of costs and access in the U.S. health care market are presented to student teams, who choose and defend options to reign in costs and improve access.

Health Insurance Markets and Reform of the Affordable Care Act
Carlena Ficano, Hartwick College
Students are asked to identify and justify which of a series of microeconomic concepts they believe to be most important to informed decision making in the area of health insurance reform in the U.S.

Unemployment and Health Insurance Coverage
Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Students will search for data on unemployment and health insurance coverage, mapping them and underscoring the reasons for reductions in health insurance coverage when unemployment increases.

Pay-for-performance in health economics
Ashley Hodgson, Saint Olaf College
Students will identify the most important outcome measure for a doctor pay-for-performance scheme.