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Category: Affordable Care Act

Friday Links

Posted on September 5, 2025September 5, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • The No Surprises Act caused an 18% decline in out-of-pocket spending among adults with direct purchase private health insurance.
  • Which cities have the most crime? (Hint: they are mainly blue)
  • Why (Obamacare’s) mandated free screenings can make heath care worse for patients.
  • Arguments  for and against reconciliation 2.0
  • Some good news:

Take teen pregnancies. Since 1990, they have fallen 78% to an all-time low. Or drunk driving. Fatalities have dropped by over 55% since the 1980s and an astonishing 77% among those under age 21. Then there’s smoking.  At the time of the 1964 Surgeon General’s report linking cigarettes with cancer, 43% of adult Americans smoked. That number is now down to 12%.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on September 3, 2025September 2, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Why taxing the wealthy to support more consumption by everyone else will make us all worse off.
  • Trump ends collective bargaining for most federal workers.
  • No Surprise (Bills) Act: In 2024, providers won 85 percent of the disputes. Total 3-year cost: $5 billion.
  • Are AI tools making doctors worse at their jobs?
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Bankruptcies Rising in the Health Care Sector

Posted on September 2, 2025 by Devon Herrick

The United States spends nearly $5 trillion on medical care and health-related activities each year. Health expenditure consumes nearly 20% of gross domestic product (GDP). Yet, economists and business analysts claim the health care industry is hemorrhaging money, with bankruptcies on the rise year after year.

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Monday Links

Posted on September 1, 2025September 1, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Book review: “Why did China manage to build the world’s biggest high-speed rail network in just a few years, while California has yet to build a single mile of operational train track despite almost two decades of trying?” (Recommended)
  • Scott Sumner: In defense of China. (Also recommended)
  • Why our hearts can be as much as 10 years older than our chronological age and what we can do about it.
  • Pew Foundation: How government destroyed low-cost housing.
  • It’s progressives who aren’t having children. HT: Arnold Kling
  • If the money the federal government spent to reconstruct New Orleans after Katrina were given to people who live there in cash, it would amount to more than $1 million per household.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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