- How much does a black-market kidney cost? From $50K to $120K.
- More details on how covid information was censored.
- Our country’s ninth-largest export is blood.
- The Biden-Harris “infrastructure bill,” which authorized some $42 billion to expand high-speed connectivity to rural and inner-city areas, has hooked up approximately zero households to broadband service so far.
- What is wrong with the Harris proposals for small business?
- Kamala’s “health care “plan” … is 256 words long and consists largely of a recap of the Biden administration’s very limited accomplishments.
Author: Pieter Vorster
Friday Links
- “The energy stored in a human baby’s tissues accounts for only about 4 percent of the total energy costs of pregnancy. The other 96 percent is extra fuel required by a woman’s own body.” (NYT)
- The (leftwing) American Prospect complains that Medicare Advantage plans are spending $64 billion a year on such supplemental benefits as dental, vision, gym memberships, etc. – benefits that those in traditional Medicare enrollees don’t get. C’mon, guys. If traditional Medicare weren’t so inefficient, it could offer those benefits as well.
- How the Biden administration is negatively impacting Medicare.
- Do for-profit hospitals practice cream skimming (taking on healthier patients with lower costs of care)? No. it’s the nonprofits that are more guilty of this practice.
- Giving blood is an alternative to a payday loan.
Wednesday Links
- A proposal: for reference pricing – why aren’t insurance companies and employers doing this?
- Cato’s Human Freedom Index: Switzerland is No. 1. The US is No. 17
- 3 million children have been dropped from Medicaid and CHIP this year.
- Homelessness is surging in blue states and blue cities.
- Bernie Sanders to introduce bill to restrict US drug prices to the prices paid by other developed countries. (Some similarity to a Trump policy that Biden rescinded.) InsideHealthPolicy — Gated