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Category: Cost of Healthcare

Tuesday Links

Posted on December 3, 2024December 3, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • Up to one in five patients may not respond well to obesity drugs.
  • Thanksgiving tip: People eat less when the food is spicier.
  • A wristband that measures exposure to toxic chemicals. (NYT)
  • Why humans cry.  (NYT)
  • Probability of returning to traditional Medicare is slightly higher for Medicare Advantage enrollees in states where Medigap insurance is guaranteed issue.
  • Why you should worry about bird flu.
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British Primary Care Doctors Overworked and Voted for Labor Slowdown

Posted on December 2, 2024 by Devon Herrick

With the Left in love with the idea of a national health program like Medicare-for-All, it’s wise to compare experiences other countries have with similar programs. Historically the British National Health Service (NHS) emphasized easy access to primary care, while rationing more costly services of specialists and expensive drugs. Lately the NHS is even experiencing problems with access to primary care.

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Monday Links

Posted on December 2, 2024December 2, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • What’s wrong with Thanksgiving. “Land acknowledgements”: There is no legal sense in which the land on which they are being performed belongs to a Native American tribe.
  • Why Trump’s pick to head the Department of Labor is worrisome.
  • Why identity politics no longer works: “Among people who married in 2022, 32 percent of Asian Americans married outside their ethnic group, as did 30 percent of Hispanics, 23 percent of Black people and 15 percent of white people. In one Pew survey 58 percent of Hispanics also identified as white.” (NYT)
  • How much of chronic illness is due to the food we eat?
  • Medicare drug payments vary widely:

In central Illinois, Centene priced the cancer drug Lapatinib at $3,622, while Humana’s price was double the amount. It costs $10,000 in certain parts of California and more than $12,000 in the center of Pennsylvania.

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Saturday Links

Posted on November 30, 2024November 29, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • National Review is disappointed in telehealth.
  • Tyler on Marty Makary.
  • Medicare and Medicaid fraud = $100 billion a year. 
  • Nearly half of adolescents and three-quarters of adults in the U.S. were clinically overweight or obese in 2021 — double the number in 1990.
  • Britain legalizes assisted dying.
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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,

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