I’m a fan of high-deductible health plans, but the premiums under Obamacare are too high compared to the benefits. Plans should be able to offer annual and lifetime caps on benefits to reduce premiums further. Obamacare’s ban on annual and lifetime benefits is what allowed drug prices and the price of some medical procedures to reach the stratosphere. In addition, with hospitals acquiring physician practices many consumers are being steered to hospital owned facilities which have higher prices.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Demographics, not the Supreme Court, are killing racial gerrymandering
There’s been no shortage of expressed outrage from the left in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which significantly limits states’ efforts at racial gerrymandering. A Salon headline captures the progressive indignation: “Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act in ‘Jim Crow 2.0 ruling.’” The left can never be accused of understatement. But the change needed to happen because U.S. demographics are making racial gerrymandering increasingly difficult. And that’s a good thing.
Read the full article on TheHill.com
Tuesday Links – 5 May 2026
- Highest paying specialties: orthopedics and orthopedic surgery: $611,000, cardiology: $575,000, and radiology: $571,000.
- Why are 90% of people right-handed? (Forbes)
- Cigna leaves Obamacare. Only 2 of the last 12 years were profitable.
- David Friedman explains adverse selection.
- The ratio of national debt (held by the public) to GDP passed 100% for the first time since World War 2.