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Freaky or Facts: The Economics of Health Care

By Richard Quinn | on October 24, 2014 | 0 Comment
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Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, the famed authors of international best-seller Freakonomics and its successor, SuperFreakonomics, will talk about the unique nexus of Stephen Dubnerhealth care and economics in the Opening Session of ACEP14.

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And who better to speak about economics and health care than these two?

Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where Steven Levitthe directs the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. In 2006, he was named one of Time’s 100 People Who Shape Our World.

Dubner is an award-winning author, journalist, and TV and radio personality who has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Time.

Richard Quinn is a freelance writer in New Jersey.

Opening Session
Monday, Oct. 27
8–9:30 a.m.
Skyline Ballroom W375ABC

 

Topics: ACEP14economicsEmergency MedicineHealth Care

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Richard Quinn is an award-winning journalist with 15 years’ experience. He has worked at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and currently is managing editor for a leading commercial real estate publication. His freelance work has appeared in The Jewish State, ACEP Now, The Hospitalist, The Rheumatologist, and ENT Today. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three cats.

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