Monday Links Posted on July 8, 2024July 8, 2024 by John C. Goodman Physician-administered specialty drugs comprise 55% of U.S. drug spending and over half of that spending is on oncology. If the Bureau of Labor Statistics Prescription Drug Consumer Price Index included these drugs it would be 22% higher. One union saved $33 million a year on its health plan, generating funds to give its nearly 200,000 members $3,000 bonuses and their largest pay raise in history –primarily by carving out of its plan one major price-gouging hospital. To determine whether a person is eligible for Social Security disability, the government uses a depression era list of 10,000 occupations that was only partially updated 30 years ago. Why do you remember some things and not others? Why drinking alcohol on airplanes may be bad for you. (NYT)
