Cost of Healthcare – Page 4 – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Tuesday Links

Posted on November 25, 2025November 25, 2025 by John C. Goodman

During the 2000s, the agency’s oncology chief, Richard Pazdur, torpedoed treatments based on quibbles with their trial designs

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NPR: Fewer Physicians Trained Abroad Want to Practice Medicine in U.S.

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Devon Herrick

More than one-quarter of applicants for U.S. residency programs are foreign medical graduates. In 2025, 9,761 international medical graduates matched to a residency program in the U.S. out of a pool estimated to be as high as 15,000 who wanted to come. Some of these were U.S. citizens attending school abroad, but most were foreign born and educated abroad.

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Monday Links

Posted on November 24, 2025November 24, 2025 by John C. Goodman

Immigrant geniuses: Between 1990 and 2019, migrants from China, India, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines accounted for nearly 40 percent of the growth in America’s software-developer ranks, a quarter of new scientists and engineers, and a fifth of additional physicians.
Effect of students’ failure to learn: the lifetime earnings of today’s average student will be an estimated 8 percent lower than that of students in 2013.
Why aren’t there more HSAs in exchange plans?
Based on data from almost 2 million species, researchers found that in the last 200 years, there was no evidence for increasing extinction from climate change.

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Saturday Links

Posted on November 22, 2025November 21, 2025 by John C. Goodman

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