Menu
The Goodman Institute Health Blog
  • Home
  • Authors
    • Devon Herrick, Ph.D.
    • John C. Goodman
  • Popular Topics
    • Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
    • Consumer-Driven Health Care
      • Affordable Care Act
      • Cost of Healthcare
      • COVID-19 and Public Health
      • Doctors & Hospitals
      • Public Insurance
      • Policy & Legislation
    • Direct Primary Care
    • Health Economics & Costs
      • Drug Prices & Regulations
      • Health Insurance
      • Health Reform
    • Medical Tourism
    • Telemedicine
    • Medicare
      • Single-Payer/Medicare-for-All
  • Goodman Institute
  • Contact
The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Category: Cost of Healthcare

Thursday Links

Posted on April 17, 2025April 17, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • What the federal government does with your money and why that’s a problem.
  • “These studies find that ACO “gross” savings (which do not account for incentive payments to ACOs) are modest to non-existent, while “net” savings (which account for incentive payments) are vanishingly small or actually represent losses  to CMS).”
  • Against Kennedy’s autism investigation. (Bloomberg)
  • Corruption by Centene and other bad actors.
  • The “success sequence” for avoiding poverty: graduate from high school, get a full-time job, and wait until marriage to have children – A DEBATE.
+

Wednesday Links

Posted on April 16, 2025April 15, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • In defense of Ivermectin.
  • Are doctors ripping off Medicare with “skin bandages”? (NYT)
  • Suppressing negative thoughts can be harmful.
  • Some political beliefs may be hardwired in our brains.
  • The measles vaccine has good health effects other than preventing measles.
+

WSJ: Republicans Want to End to Abusive State Medicaid ‘Money Laundering’ Games

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Devon Herrick

With a majority in both houses of Congress and a president in the White House, Republicans are talking about putting an end to an abusive Medicaid practice. The Congressional Budget Office estimated such a move would save $600 billion over a decade.

+

Monday Links

Posted on April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • “Real per capita GDP in a nation is negatively associated with government spending.”
  • How the federal government subsidizes health insurance.
  • RFK Jr.: If you eat doughnuts or smoke, should society pay for your health care? (WaPo)
  • What people who work in hospitals get paid.
+
  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • …
  • 326
  • Next

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,

Visit www.goodmaninstitute.org

Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 35 other subscribers

Popular Topics

©2025 The Goodman Institute Health Blog | Website by Lexicom