- Kamala’s Medicare for All plan would be costly. Very costly.
- Around 60% of baby and toddler food items sold in major U.S. retailers fail to meet international nutritional guidelines.
- 1.81 billion people are “energy poor.”
- University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan: Kamala Harris’s votes for ARP and IRA were responsible for at least half of the excess inflation experienced during the Biden presidency.
- Medicare’s actuaries estimate because of the IRA, the average cost of providing drug coverage will rise by 179% next year. In an attempt to avert that, the Biden/Harris administration is planning to give Medicare Part D plans $70 billion, three-year “premium stabilization” program — “a massive bailout to insurers to paper over the increased costs of the Inflation Reduction Act.”
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Is Marriage a Magic Health Elixir? Then Why Does Government Discourage it?
Marriage improves health, wealth, and wellbeing. It reduces child poverty and boosts the resources kids need to grow and develop into well rounded adults. It is unfortunate that government policy that is intended to reduce poverty is arguable one source of it.
Thursday Links
- What does the Republican Party Platform have to say about heath care? Not much.
- MSM coverage of Kamala Harris since she replaced Joe Biden on the ticket was 84 percent positive; while Donald Trump’s coverage was 89% negative.
- PhARMA: Over half of every dollar spent on medicines goes to middlemen and others.
- International study: after patent expiration (and the arability of generics), the fastest price declines were observed in the US — 32% in year 1 and 82% within 8 years.
- Why have so many pancreata (the plural of pancreas) gone missing?
Wednesday Links
- 16 ways the Biden/Harris administration has made housing more expensive.
- Casy Mulligan: Biden Harris regulations will cost the average family $50,000 over a lifetime.
- Price negotiation does not save money when you are paying for drugs that don’t work.
- Scientists are getting better at pinpointing our biological age. Can they reverse the process?