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Author: John C. Goodman

Thursday Links

Posted on May 18, 2023May 18, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • The AMA’s Advancing Health Equity guide is a joke. But after the laughter dies, it is also very sad.
  • British Columbia to send thousands of Canadian cancer patients to Washington state for treatment.
  • Paragon: Medicare’s venture into “value based care” has done little except add administrative burden and a set of quality metrics that are easily gamed and don’t translate into better or more efficient care.
  • Trump’s executive order allowing employers to fund individually owned health insurance is taking hold.
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What Bernie Sanders Gets Wrong About Wages

Posted on May 15, 2023 by John C. Goodman

“In the year 2023, in the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be forced to work for starvation wages…   If you work 40, 50 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. It is time to raise the minimum wage to a living wage.” Bernie Sanders,  May 4, 2023

This is Sanders’ argument for raising the minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 an hour to $17.00. But the whole premise is wrong. Virtually no one today is earning the minimum wage. Even if they did, they wouldn’t be poor. And that’s been true for some time.

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Monday Links

Posted on May 15, 2023May 14, 2023 by John C. Goodman

David Henderson: If you read or watch nothing else about Covid-19 today or this weekend, make sure you watch Margery Smelkinson’s 4-minute testimony. Charlie Hooper on Ivermectin. How student loans are like health insurance: graduate students will account for 48 percent of new federal student loans … graduates of master’s degree programs owe over $55,000 and graduates of professional programs owe…

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Saturday Links

Posted on May 13, 2023May 13, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • The US government has reinstated funding to EcoHealth Alliance, the agency that collaborated on bat research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China. 
  • Krguman on how Pharma avoids paying income taxes. Answer: tax people, not corporations
  • Food Stamps: “We find the fastest-growing groups of the adult caseload suffer from low employment levels and poor health outcomes.”
  • Top 20 hospitals and their CEOs racked up huge pandemic profits.
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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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