- Were the Dark Ages really all that dark?
- Most expensive state for health insurance (cost/median monthly household income): West Virginia. Least expensive state: Maryland.
- The bad news on single payer heath insurance.
- Why the Medicare Trustees failed to predict the cost-increasing consequences of the IRA bill.
Friday Links – 10 July 2026
- KFF: ACA to experience double digit premium increases this fall.
- Why does the AMA control our billing codes. Is there a better way?
- Does our payment system dictate what therapies patient receive?
- Argument: let pharmacists prescribe for routine conditions – especially in rural and underserved areas.
- To lower health care costs, end three abusive and common contracting terms used by hospitals to inflate their revenue.
Top 5% of Americans Pay 59% of Federal Taxes
Yet progressives say that’s not enough; they want to soak the rich even more.
Thursday Links – 9 July 2026
- Is it possible to “build a cell from scratch”?
- BMJ study: a trade deal with the US requiring Britain to pay more for US drugs would cause 229,000 avoidable deaths because of the diversion of funds from other heath care needs. Is this supposed to make us feel guilty?
- From 2005 to 2023, per capita health care spending grew 1.8 percent per year among people in the highest income quintile compared with no growth among people in the lowest income quintile.
- How AI could increase health care spending.