- Britain’s NHS has an elder care problem.
- Medicare Trustees: The Part A fund will now become insolvent in 2033 — three years earlier than previous predictions.
- AEI on the latest Medicare Trustees report.
- The FDA has granted approval to 270 treatments over its 30 years. Yet they have accounted for well below 1 percent of Medicaid spending.
- MAHA may bring back whole milk for kids.
- More reasons why the FDA should require proof of safety, but not efficacy, for new drug approvals.
Category: John C. Goodman
Friday Links
- House reconciliation bill creates new subsidies for small business to help employees buy individually owned health insurance.
- How AEI would reform MA plans.
- Does exercise really help cancer survival?
- For diabetes, lifestyle changes are twice as effective as Metformin.
- Should everyone have a glucose monitor?
Thursday Links
- “The number of those providing genuine Marcus Welby MD style primary care … continues to fall. And it’s not too hard to figure out why. The average primary doctor makes a whole lot less than their specialty counterparts.”
- Senate Finance version of the Big, Beautiful Bill: good, bad and ugly.
- Do medical licensing laws violate the right to free speech?
- Paragon Health study: There are 6.4 million ineligible enrollees with (Obamacare) exchange coverage. Note: fraud is easy if the premium is zero.
- FDA to fast track drug approval if the manufacturer is in line with Trump’s health goals (like producing drugs in this country).
Wednesday Links
- AAF: Contra Biden Admin., monopoly is not a problem in the US economy.
- Richard McKensie: Trump’s “beautiful bill” will raise federal spending in 2035 to at least 24 percent of GDP from 23.1 percent this year (and 20.6 percent in 2019, before COVID)
- Use and misuse of Ivermectin.
- Covid Redux: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee decided to inoculate essential workers ahead of seniors, even though its own modeling suggested this would increase deaths by up to 7 percent.”
- More evidence that taxes on capital affect investment.