What should be done about price gouging? What constitutes price gouging? There is no official definition, but we all know it when we see it. I have often said that during my lifetime medicine has turned into a gold rush. By that I mean some medical providers test the limits of how much they can charge with little regard for ethics or fairness.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Tuesday Links
- AEI study: Food stamp reform can save $31 billion a year.
- Does money cause happiness; or do happy people earn more money?
- Fifty-five percent of single Americans feel pessimistic that they will ever find a long-term partner.
- Forecast: By 2100, 54 percent of the world’s babies will be born in sub-Saharan Africa.
Monday Links
- Why is European life expectancy greater than in the US? It isn’t for old people. The higher death rate for the US young is because of drug overdoses, car accidents, drinking, and murder. (Noah @ #3)
- The reason for falling US fertility: non college educated women are not marrying non college educated men. (Noah @ #4)
- IRS now takes nearly two years to resolve stolen identity cases.
- Student achievement began declining around 2013, but these declines—both before and after the pandemic—were overwhelmingly driven by the bottom half of test takers.
What is Public Health and Why is the Definition Important
There are probably as many opinions on what constitutes public health as there are people. Is junk food and sugary beverages a public health concern? What about obesity? The former are amenable to individual action, but some public health concerns require collective action. One example is Cholera, a communicable waterborne disease that causes serious diarrhea, often leading to death.