Unlike goods, services cannot be outsourced to Amazon. Is there a future for shopping malls? Indeed, some people have even suggested repurposing struggling shopping malls into retail space for medical services.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Monday Links
- What do Democrats have against marriage?
- California Blocks Life-Sustaining Telehealth Treatment.
- Raj Chetty, et. al.: For children in the U.S. born between 1978 and 1992, income class gaps grew and race gaps shrank, and similarly for non-monetary outcomes such as educational attainment, standardized test scores, and mortality rates.
- “Every attorney general fights for state power and police prerogatives. It’s part of the job. But over and over again, [Kamala] Harris went beyond the call of duty, fighting for harsher sentences, larger bail requirements, longer prison terms, more prosecution of petty crimes, greater criminal justice involvement in low-income and minority communities, less due process for people in the system, less transparency, and less accountability for bad cops.”
- “The cost of wearing a mask for two weeks, for me personally, is higher than the benefit of a 3% reduction in the risk of getting a cold.”
- Expanding scope of practice authority for dental hygienists: “Overall the effects were modest but the individuals who benefited most from this policy change were lower income individuals.”
Saturday Links
- Manhattan Institute: Let private insurers negotiate drug prices instead of the government.
- Bipartisan PBM reform: “The bill would bar PBMs from steering, force sharing of nearly all rebates on prescriptions with health plans, allow patients to get their drugs from any in-network pharmacy, prevent overcharging patients above the reimbursement rate to the pharmacy, prohibit “spread pricing” where PBMs pocket the difference between what they tell the health plan a drug costs and what they reimburse the pharmacy, and much more.”
- When should the public be alerted to possible side effects from vaccines?
- Five of the 10 happiest countries are Nordic countries.
- UnitedHealth Group now employs or is affiliated with 10% of all physicians in the U.S. (STAT)
- Bird Flu: Right now, everyone getting sick works with animals; but given more time to circulate, the virus may get better at spreading human-to-human, which could result in a global wave of H5N1 infections.
Are Americans Taking Too Many Drugs?
I once read a comment from a doctor who said when he sees seniors who are on a dozen pharmaceutical drugs, half are to treat the side effects of the other half. What effect can too many medications have on seniors? You would be amazed.