- Fauci isn’t retiring after all.
- CBO: taxpayers would save billions of dollars and the number of people with health insurance would remain the same if the (Obamacare) extended subsidies are allowed to expire in December.
- The other side of waste: More spending leads to better health outcomes.
- Cato: Day Light Savings Time transition has been linked to increased risks of car accidents, heart attacks, and depressive symptoms in studies.
Author: John C. Goodman
Concentrated Health Care Markets
Michael Cannon at Cato writes:
By 2017, in most markets, a single hospital system had more than a 50 percent market share of discharges. In 2016, markets for specialist physicians exhibited what federal antitrust authorities consider a high degree of concentration in 65 percent of metropolitan areas. Markets for primary‐care physicians exhibited high concentration in 39 percent of metropolitan areas…. In 2016, 57 percent of health insurance markets exhibited high concentration; in 2018, 75 percent did.
Wednesday Links
- Why doctors find it so difficult to treat monkeypox.
- Global backslide in vaccinations: The full three-dose coverage for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine (DTP) was 81 percent in 2021, a drop of five percentage points from 2019.
- The marriage tax: couples can lose as much as 20 years of income to higher taxes and reduced entitlements. (especially Medicaid)
- The attack on America’s best health plans.
- Learning loss from school closures during the the pandemic: the average for 20 countries is a half year of schooling.
Monday Links
- Prices that aren’t rising: drugs. In fact, they are falling.
- If global warming is bad for health, why do so few people die from excessive heat in India and Pakistan?
- BA.5 doesn‘t care if you’ve just had Covid-19.
- US men have the highest rate of avoidable deaths among developed countries. The Commonwealth Foundation blames capitalism.
- Paragon study: Insulin bill would raise costs, add to the federal deficit and hurt patients.
- Health care CEOs are doing well: more than 100 of them pulled in at least eight figures last year.