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Author: John C. Goodman

Friday Links

Posted on April 29, 2022July 25, 2022 by John C. Goodman

Johns Hopkins professor, Dr. Marty Makary on Fox News says when he goes to doctors’ conferences almost no one is wearing a mask.

What’s the right sales tax for tampons? This is a big issue in Texas.

If Pfizer’s Covid pills work so well, why aren’t people taking them?

How right wing think tanks think about health care.

British Court: officials broke the law when they sent untested (Covid) patients to nursing homes. And so, apparently did US governors Cuomo, Murphy, Wolf, Baker, Pritzker, Whitmer, and Walz. 

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Doctors as Slave Labor

Posted on April 26, 2022April 26, 2022 by John C. Goodman

For many years Cuba has been sending doctors to practice medicine in other countries. Yet far from being a humanitarian exercise, Cuba has actually been engaging in human trafficking for profit.

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Insulin

Posted on April 25, 2022April 26, 2022 by John C. Goodman

Before a Trump executive order, employers could not provide free or subsidized insulin to their diabetic employees without sacrificing the employees’ right to have a Health Savings Account. This meant that employees had to spend their entire health insurance deductible out of pocket before any employer cost sharing took effect. The Trump administration’s change leaves employers and employees free to engage in the kind of cost-sharing arrangements that make economic and health care sense.

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Friday Links

Posted on April 22, 2022July 25, 2022 by John C. Goodman

What is it like to continuously monitor your blood sugar? You can see the effects of a smoothie or a Cadbury Creme Egg in real time. (They are about the same.)

During Covid, the Flu was virtually nonexistent. The latest flue vaccine is only 16% effective.

Geoengineering can cool the planet, as man-produced sulfur dioxide in the sky reflects the sun. The downside: one billion people could be at greater risk of malaria.

Myanmar targets doctors: They are arrested in their homes and in hospitals; 30 have been killed.

The jury system works. Doctor acquitted of murdering 14 end-of-life patients by prescribing pain killers to hasten and comfort their death.

Time to free the nurses?  In half of U.S. states, nurse practitioners cannot treat patients directly without a physician’s supervision.

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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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