- John Cochrane: The right reasons to fire Harvard president, Claudine Gay.
- Expanding primary care with foreign medical school graduates.
- Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is mostly diagnosed between the ages of 45 and 65 (Bruce Willis, for example.) It can be caused by a single genetic mutation. (NYT)
- An estimated 28 percent of prescribed antibiotics are unnecessary.
Category: John C. Goodman
Washington Doesn’t Understand Obamacare
Both parties are getting it wrong. And that’s surprising. Don’t these folks ever talk to the voters?
In the House of Representatives, the GOP’s “number-one priority for health care reform” is lowering health insurance premiums. However, 8 in 10 enrollees in the exchanges pay $10 a month or less. For a family with average income, the premium is usually zero.
Saturday Links
- The case against taxing the wealthy to save Social Security.
- AEI’s budget projection: “We project that debt-to-GDP will be 135 percent in 2032 and 268 percent in 2052, compared to CBO’s 112 percent and 177 percent, respectively.
- Drugs to treat obesity and diabetes: “We estimate that net prices received by drugmakers are 48–78 percent lower than list prices… faced by some consumers.”
- Diabetes contributed roughly $296 billion to excess health care spending in 2023.
- Social Security replaces about 54 percent of the pre-retirement earnings of an average wage worker. (This is higher than what Social Security tells us.)