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David Cutler

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01 / belief

If you step back even before those, it’s, I think, a setting where society has really made it much easier for high-income, high-SES people to be able to engage in the types of things and buy the types of things that are associated with improved health.

“If you step back even before those, it’s, I think, a setting where society has really made it much easier for high-income, high-SES people to be able to engage in the types of things and buy the types of things that are associated with improved health.”
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David Cutler
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Conversations with Tyler

02 / belief

I think that maybe some of what’s going on — which is that society is bifurcating along the haves and the have-nots based on socioeconomic status as opposed to race — that the have-nots are really a large share of the population, and the have-nots can’t afford to live in Silicon Valley, and they can’t afford to live in the Boston metro area, and they can’t afford to live in New York.

“I think that maybe some of what’s going on — which is that society is bifurcating along the haves and the have-nots based on socioeconomic status as opposed to race — that the have-nots are really a large share of the population, and the have-nots can’t afford to live in Silicon Valley, and they can’t afford to live in the Boston metro area, and they can’t afford to live in New York.”
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David Cutler
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Conversations with Tyler

03 / belief

I think, for any city, figuring out how to get emergencies treated right away and to the right places, and then having those places do the right thing, is really important.

“I think, for any city, figuring out how to get emergencies treated right away and to the right places, and then having those places do the right thing, is really important.”
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David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

04 / belief

I think you hit on the big issue at the start, which is, how do you take people who have difficulty interacting with the medical system and for whom society has been somewhat unfair and at least try and improve some aspects — their health, their economic circumstances, but we’ll stick here with the health component.

“I think you hit on the big issue at the start, which is, how do you take people who have difficulty interacting with the medical system and for whom society has been somewhat unfair and at least try and improve some aspects — their health, their economic circumstances, but we’ll stick here with the health component.”
Speaker
David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

07 / belief

If you want to talk about them, and you don’t believe they’re right, let’s absolutely have that conversation. But until we agree that there’s something better, this is how we’re going to practice.

“If you want to talk about them, and you don’t believe they’re right, let’s absolutely have that conversation. But until we agree that there’s something better, this is how we’re going to practice.”
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David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

11 / evaluation

One of the things — and I’m sure the libertarian in you wants to go there as well — is, I think, in general, it’s a bad idea where all of the public health of the country hangs on one agency so that if that agency has bad luck or bad leadership or just whatever happens, the power goes out, then nothing can happen.

“One of the things — and I’m sure the libertarian in you wants to go there as well — is, I think, in general, it’s a bad idea where all of the public health of the country hangs on one agency so that if that agency has bad luck or bad leadership or just whatever happens, the power goes out, then nothing can happen.”
Speaker
David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

12 / evaluation

The first approximation what matters is total calories in, but they’re probably types of calories and combinations of calories that lead to more or less weight gain.

“The first approximation what matters is total calories in, but they’re probably types of calories and combinations of calories that lead to more or less weight gain.”
Speaker
David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

13 / evaluation

What’s happened over time is that as infectious disease has declined, we’ve spent less and less money and less and less attention on the public health system until, basically, parts of it collapsed in COVID, and we realized, “Oh my God, it’s a bad idea to have a nonfunctioning public health system.

“What’s happened over time is that as infectious disease has declined, we’ve spent less and less money and less and less attention on the public health system until, basically, parts of it collapsed in COVID, and we realized, “Oh my God, it’s a bad idea to have a nonfunctioning public health system.”
Speaker
David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

15 / observation

The other famous example of where you can do that is, for example, in vitro fertilization, where the records of the different centers do seem to matter. That is, people will go more to the centers that have a good record because families are thinking about which centers should I go to and stuff like that.

“The other famous example of where you can do that is, for example, in vitro fertilization, where the records of the different centers do seem to matter. That is, people will go more to the centers that have a good record because families are thinking about which centers should I go to and stuff like that.”
Speaker
David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

16 / evaluation

Google has actually been pretty good for health because now you can find out things about where can I go to get a COVID test, or what about flu shots, and so on.

“Google has actually been pretty good for health because now you can find out things about where can I go to get a COVID test, or what about flu shots, and so on.”
Speaker
David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

17 / preference

” What we would hope they would do is go to their doctor and say, “Doctor, is there any way that there could be a cheaper medicine that might work because $30 is hard for me this month?

“” What we would hope they would do is go to their doctor and say, “Doctor, is there any way that there could be a cheaper medicine that might work because $30 is hard for me this month?”
Speaker
David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

18 / evaluation

One of the things that I think the literature has not been as good at as it could be is the impact of the environment — not just environment in terms of green space and ability to walk on the streets, but the impact of the environment in terms of pollution and exposure to various substances and what that may then do to health.

“One of the things that I think the literature has not been as good at as it could be is the impact of the environment — not just environment in terms of green space and ability to walk on the streets, but the impact of the environment in terms of pollution and exposure to various substances and what that may then do to health.”
Speaker
David Cutler
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler
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