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Author: John C. Goodman

Friday Links

Posted on November 25, 2022November 24, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Launch price for a course of treatment for Type 1 diabetes approaches $200,000. We predicted the IRA bill would lead to higher launch prices. But even we are shocked by this one.
  • Anthony Fauci to be deposed in a lawsuit against the federal government for allegedly colluding with social media companies to censor speech.
  • Hospital care at home: outcomes are actually better, but it’s scheduled to go away when the (Covid) public health emergency goes away. (NYT)
  • Rare and unusual Covid side effects: hairy tongues, purple toes, welts that sprout on the face, and more. (NYT)
  • “Apparently, to the people that write [CDC] guidelines, more people dying of COVID is less of a concern if the deaths are more racially balanced.”
  • Over half of Covid deaths are among people who have been vaccinated.
  • Scotland is considering these reforms to the National Health Service:

An option to “Pause funding of new development/drugs” unless they can be proved to save the NHS money… Stopping care services altogether and instead sending patients home for care.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Ideal population for the earth: is 8 billion too many or too few?
  • Claim: Clinton era adoption law is devastating for Black families.
  • Fraudulent unemployment claims in a single year of Covid reached $11 billion in New York.
  • Because cannabis is illegal under federal law, only one US facility has been allowed to do research on it.
  • Paragon lays out goals for the lame duck Congress.
  • Is cannibalism a healthy diet?
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Cuts to Medicare in the IRA Bill

Posted on November 22, 2022November 22, 2022 by John C. Goodman

Writing in the WSJ, Casey Mulligan and Tomas Philipson point out something that almost all commentary has overlooked. Seniors are about to be hit with a double whammy: higher drug prices at the pharmacy and higher premiums for Part D drug insurance:

We estimate that beginning in 2025, plan subsidies—specifically, the reinsurance subsidies for the beneficiaries with the most drug spending—will be cut $30 billion, out of revenue that currently totals about $110 billion. With $30 billion less to finance prescription benefits, something will have to give. Plans currently have far too little profit to span the chasm that the Inflation Reduction Act opens between expenses and revenue…

This is a nice companion to the article Linda Gorman and I wrote for The Hill a few weeks ago.

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HSAs Under Obamacare

Posted on November 21, 2022 by John C. Goodman

Paragon’s updated report …contains 2023 plan information and a distributional analysis from the actuarial firm Milliman. Giving lower-­income exchange enrollees an additional way to use their ACA subsidy expands Americans’ welfare since some enrollees would prefer an HSA deposit over the reduction of their plans’ cost-­sharing components.

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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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