A mother who recently gave birth to premature quadruplets experienced a $4 million hospital bill. That was $1 million per child. Her babies required neonatal ICU for lengths of stay that varied from two months to nearly five months. The mother even quit her job in the sixth month of her pregnancy to qualify for Medicaid because she knew she could not afford the medical bills associated with quadruplets.
Category: Affordable Care Act
Monday Links
- Study: Every $326 that our government spends researching cancer extends a human life by one year.
- Something like 70% of teenagers enroll in college but only 35% of those finish.
- Now the MAHA Commission has released the “Make Our Children Healthy Again: Strategy Report,” which contains more than 120 recommendations spanning multiple federal cabinet departments and agencies.
- An anti-abortion argument for not extending the Obamacare enhanced subsidies.
Obesity is a Bigger Problem than Hunger, Even Among the Poor
I am going to make a bold statement that always seems to draw criticism whenever I have mentioned it: hunger is no longer a problem in the United States. Hunger, when it exists, is merely a symptom of other problems. Today hunger and malnutrition are symptoms of child neglect, drug abuse, dementia, disability and mental illness. In fact, obesity is a bigger problem among the poor than hunger.
Government Is the Reason Health Care is So Political
Health care has become politicized, with one side believing in wildly different things than the other. Health secretary RFK Jr. is a vaccine skeptic, for example. He is reportedly testing President Trump’s patience with his antiestablishment agenda. On the far left of the voter distribution, many people passionately believe medical care should be free at the point of service, paid for with progressive taxation. Purportedly, when having to reach for one’s wallet after receiving medical care is bad for your health.