- What to know about Food Stamps.
- Doctor v. Doctor: Medical wars patients never hear about.
- Trump EO: marijuana to be available for medical research.
- Obamacare supporters don’t seem to understand the MLR regulations they created.
- If you brain is preserved after your death, how likely is it that your thoughts will be preserved?
- HHS: No Medicare, Medicaid to hospitals offering gender care to minors.
Author: John C. Goodman
Friday Links
- Study: nearly two-thirds of modern dog breeds, including Chihuahuas, contain traces of recent wolf DNA.
- Britain’s annual economic output is about 6 percent to 8 percent smaller than it would be if British voters had chosen to remain in the European Union.
- The consulting firm PwC projects that tariffs affecting the pharmaceutical, life science, and medical device industries could add as much as $63 billion a year to health care costs.
- Cato: Private Equity in the hospital industry is not as bad as you have been led to believe.
Thursday Links
- Humana publishes its own research, when it’s good for Humana. (Statnews)
- Why economists should listen to Scott Sumner.
- Why it’s hard to distinguish high-valued care from low-valued care in Medicare: patients are different. (Does this problem really cover 25% of Part B spending?)
- Among the almost 20 million people who have been disenrolled from Medicaid, nearly 1 in 4 report that they have not transitioned to other sources of coverage.
- The growth of national health care spending exceeds 6 percent and is projected to remain close to that level for a decade.
Obamacare Crowd Out
Whereas the ACA’s original subsidies were on average worth $293 (5%) less to households than the value of the tax exemption for employer-sponsored insurance, the expanded subsidies would be worth $3,960 (65%) more. That creates a huge incentive for employers to stop offering health benefits. A Treasury analysis published last December suggested a similar conclusion.
style=”font-weight: 400;”>Source: Chris Pope, Wall Street Journal