Writing in the Wall Street Journal, a cardiologist argues that America has a shortage of hospital beds and it’s turning into a crisis. Purportedly, the United States has only three (3) hospital beds per 1,000 population. The European Union has five (5), while Japan was 13. That sounds like a huge disparity but direct comparisons of hospital beds per capita does not tell us much.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Monday Links
- 2017 Trump tax cuts: workers in the bottom half of incomes saw a 9.3 percent reduction in their tax burden, compared to 3 percent for the top 10 percent of earners.
- Was AI used to write the MAHA report?
- Bill Buckley never had a positive vision of what a conservative government would look like.
- House reconciliation bill would give 20 million more Americans access to Health Savings Accounts. (WSJ)
Saturday Links
- When patients have access to their own electronic medical records, they have questions.
- In 2024, Americans didn’t spend a greater percent of their income on health care than they did in 2009.
- RFK Jr cancels the avian flu vaccine.
- RFK Jr. slams medical journals as “vessels for pharmaceutical propaganda.”
- Federal investments in children as a share of the economy are set to decline by 20 percent compared with spending before the pandemic.
Friday Links
Argument: even super AI won’t take all our jobs. Ozempic for everyone? In addition to weight loss and treating diabetes, it appears to help with heart, kidney and liver diseases, sleep apnea, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol addiction and even aging. (WSJ) Hospital lobbyists blocked site neutrality from the reconciliation bill – a measure that would…