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Thursday Links

Posted on September 21, 2023September 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Who pays higher prices for medical care: commercial insurer’s or self-insured employer plans?

Pharma’s case against PBMs.

Roughly a quarter of children live in a one-parent home, more than in any other country.  (NYT) Charles Murray made the same points a decade before the Gray Lady discovered the problem.

Only about one in five Americans think abortion should be allowed after the state of pregnancy in which the fetus is viable outside the womb (about 23 or 24 weeks).

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  1. RG Save201.com says:
    September 21, 2023 at 9:17 am

    Health insurance premiums have more than 25% of families being single-parent families because both spouces have coverage at their employers. COBRA premium for a 30-year-old single-parent Mother with a son who worked for the State of Iowa is $2,098/month with Blue Cross Monopoly. In Contrast, low-cost Short-Term-Medical (STM) in Ames, IA, is only 5% of that cost at $128/month.

    All of the economists, news reporters and health policy wonks refuse to write about the scam is that the NCPA, the Heritage, the CATO, Texas Policy Foundation because they are all bought off with Anthem Blue Cross kickbacks, 3rd largest insurance company in the WORLD. Add in Blue Cross of Florida, Alabama, S. Carolina – on and on. You thought that when the Blue Cross Association in the USA made Employer-Based insurance more that 10 TIMES more the secret would get out. But no, this Iowa examply is much more that 10 TIMES more and the Father of MSAs and HSAs doesn’t say a word about how CHEAP the Free Market is with the Good Hands People. Sears started the Good Hands Peo0ple BEFORE Blue Cross!

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