- How licensing limits care for victims of sexual assault.
- TrumpRX: the website will connect patients with discounted cash prices for drugs.
- Yglesias: What Democrats privately think about the shutdown.
- Details on the Trump/Pfizer deal.
- 11.2 percent of patent cost sharing is collected upfront – at the time the care is delivered.
- More than one in five Marketplace enrollees is a small business worker or entrepreneur.
Author: John C. Goodman
Thursday Links
- Johns Hopkins prof: arguments for letting the covid-era subsidies expire. (WSJ)
- French pensioners now have higher incomes than working age adults.
- The Economist says nicotine makes you smarter and has no downsides.
- Roughly 55% of the $276 billion of global pharmaceutical research and development investment in 2021 was by companies headquartered in the United States, compared with just 29% to Europe.
- Mississippi and Louisiana now have better reading scores than all blue states.
Employer Health Care Down; Obamacare Coverage Up
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
Tuesday Links
- 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.)