- We have been advocating OTC birth control for years.
- Adverse selection problems in insurance markets go away if people must insure by household rather than as individuals. At least in Pakistan.
- Is your doctor employed by a private equity firm? (NYT)
- AARP Represents Health Insurers, Not Seniors
- Is compression of morbidity being reversed? Considering 300 diseases in the USA from 1990 vs. 2017, health span (health-adjusted life expectancy) grew by 2 years, but life expectancy grew by 3 years.
- The Health Care Blog goes wacko: “The greatest health equity threat to Medicaid – and Medicare – beneficiaries is the climate crisis.”
Author: John C. Goodman
Thursday Links
- Generic drug prices are falling. That’s good news for consumers unless the drug is not available.
- Study: China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme has saved lives, increased life expectancy.
- Poland experienced five decades of a planned economy, followed by three decades of market orientation. The market is better.
- Pre Obamacare, Did Health Insurance Companies Refuse to Insure a Lot of People?
- Why do so many private schools look just like public schools?
Wednesday Links
- California considers affirmative action for prison sentences.
- Arnold Kling against marijuana.
- “We propose a new priority review voucher program to incentivize competition in limited-competition, small molecule generics markets.”
- Study: “We estimate that the recently proposed US price controls on drugs in the US would raise health care spending by $50.8 billion over a 20-year period.”
Tuesday Links
- Sen. Chuck Schumer: Logan Paul’s energy drink has the caffeine equivalent of six cans of Coke.
- Does pollution really reduce birth weight?
- The difference in life-expectancies between Black and White Americans has decreased from 7.0 years to 3.6 years between 1980 and 2018. Between 35% and 73% of this convergence is attributable to biopharmaceutical innovation.