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Author: John C. Goodman

Employer Health Care Down; Obamacare Coverage Up

Posted on September 30, 2025September 30, 2025 by John C. Goodman

The annual BLS survey of employer-sponsored benefits shows that the share of workers with access to medical benefits increased to 74% this year from 71% in 2019. That’s good news. Yet curiously, the share of workers who participate in employer medical plans among those with access to them—i.e., the take-up rate—has fallen to 65% from 73%.

Source: Wall Street Journalv

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Tuesday Links

Posted on September 30, 2025October 1, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Trump hangs autopen photo in place of Biden’s picture in the Presidential Photo Gallery.
  • How well do doctors understand percentages?
  • The Economist: the United States is “one of the only developed countries where health care is mostly left to the free market.
  • Michael Cannon on why this is wrong.
  • Krugman: What’s at stake if the Biden Obamacare subsidies elapse. (Good on the subsidy numbers, while overlooking all the problems I address here.)
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Saturday Links

Posted on September 27, 2025September 27, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Paragon: How Trump is making heath care better.
  • Why don’t pharmacists tell patients they could purchase the same drug for a lower price?
  • What’s wrong with the Harvard expert the Trump administration is using to link autism with Tylenol. 
  • Are Blue states or Red states worse on crime? (Ignore unless you are really into statistics.)
  • Adverse medical events: Michael Millenson and I might agree on something. His idea: create financial incentives.
  • My solution.
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Friday Links

Posted on September 26, 2025September 25, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Grief is expensive. In addition to the significant human impacts, research shows that bereavement leads to a 20%-30% increase in health care utilization.
  • The Trump administration is reportedly considering exempting physicians and medical residents from a newly imposed $100,000 fee for H-1B visa application.
  • White House weighs exemptions on H-1B visa fees for physicians
  • The welfare state destroyed the Black family.
  • Jeffrey Singer: Let science not government decide about Tylenol.
  • What Democrats want to keep the government open.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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