Health Care.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Health Care Program, directed by Jonathan Gruber of MIT, met in Cambridge on March 6. These papers were discussed:

* Emily Oster, Brown University and NBER, "Diabetes and Diet: Behavior Change and the Value of Health"

* Maria Polyakova, Stanford University, "Regulation of Insurance with Adverse Selection and Switching Costs: Evidence from Medicare Part D"

* Matthew Grennan, University of Pennsylvania, and Ashley Swanson, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "Transparency and Negotiated Prices: The Value of Benchmarking in Hospital-Supplier Bargaining"

* Zack Cooper and Stuart Craig, Yale University; Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER; and John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER, "Why is Health Care Spending on the Privately Insured in Grand Junction, Colorado, So High? Prices, Competition, and Health Care Spending"

* David Powell, RAND...