- Cato: Laws criminalizing the possession or sale of “drug paraphernalia” lead to avoidable diseases and death.
- Blahous: To make Medicare solvent, we need a 26% increase in the payroll tax or a 20% cut in benefits.
- Sherry Glied (who has a history of being wrong on health policy matters) says it’s time to get rid of HSAs.
- A Trump rule that would have automatically scrapped health agency regulations if they weren’t assessed every 10 years is axed by Biden’s HHS.
- More than 8 in 10 hospitals are flouting a federal rule requiring them to publish their prices.
Author: John C. Goodman
The Family Glitch
Obamacare law says that health insurance at work is “affordable” if the employee has to pay no more than 9.5% of his wages for self-only coverage. If it is affordable, neither the worker nor his family is entitled to subsidized insurance in the (Obamacare) exchanges. The Biden administration wants to change that rule administratively (without Congress) to deem health insurance “unaffordable” if the premium for the entire family is greater than 9.5% of wages.
Friday Links – 3 June 2022
- Biden wants to reinstate the airplane mask mandate.
- AMA wants physician pay reform: inflation indexing, but no HSA expansion or price transparency.
- JAMA: hospitals are marking up the cost of cancer drugs by as much as 634%.
- Three ways the government caused the baby formula shortage.
- The Covid Health Emergency is over, but politics and pork are keeping it going.