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Category: Cost of Healthcare

Saturday Links

Posted on October 19, 2024October 19, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • Medicare Part D Market: Average premiums are up 57%; average plan choices are down 53%; some state premiums increases are north of 100% (CA, NY, NV).
  • Kamala’s home health care benefit: The nation already spends more than $130 billion on home care and $190 billion on nursing home care. Having Medicare assume these costs, would  increase Medicare spending by 14 percent – assuming no increase in demand.
  • Why Trump’s trade ideas don’t add up.
  • The seven battleground states have less than 17% of the nation’s population, but they are on track to collect 44% of the green new deal (IRA) money.
  • CBO: the 10-year cost of Medicare coverage of anti-obesity medications is $35.5 billion. Health benefits are uncertain.
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Weight-Loss Drugs Also Reduce Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Devon Herrick

Early research to assess whether weight loss for its own sake is beneficial enough to require coverage has shown some health benefits. A new finding is that GLP-1 drugs reduce the cravings for drugs and alcohol as well.

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Friday Links

Posted on October 18, 2024October 19, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • Tomas Philipson: Why price controls on Ozempic could make overall health care costs go up.
  • No, millionaires and billionaire’s do not pay lower tax rates than school teachers.
  • 35% of bachelor’s degrees from liberal arts colleges result in a negative ROI.
  • “In dual-income households within the top socioeconomic quintile, only 29 percent of wives earn more than their husbands, whereas in the bottom quintile, an incredible 69 percent of wives out-earn their husbands.” HT: Arnold Kling
  • Ways in which FDR was anti-Black workers.
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Thursday Links

Posted on October 17, 2024October 17, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • Bill would allow you to get $50,000 if you give up your kidney.
  • All there is to know about “suicide pods.”
  • Survey: More than 90% of independent pharmacies may not sell Medicare Part D prescription drugs selected to undergo price negotiation.
  • When Congress created Social Security (in 1935) with a retirement age of 65, average life expectancy was 61 for white men, 65 for white women, 51.3 for Black men, and 55.2 for Black women.  
  • Paragon’s Joel Zinberg on health policy issues in the election.
  • Can RFK, Jr. “make America healthy again”?
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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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