Medical prices rise three times the rate of consumer inflation, while medical expenditure consumes nearly one-fifth of our economy. A primary reason wage growth has stalled in recent years is because the cost of employer-sponsored health coverage has skyrocketed. The average cost for an employee health plan for a family is about $25,000 according to Kaiser Family Foundation
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Monday Links
- Study: the lower your personal discount rate, the younger are your cells.
- Tweet evidence: people are becoming angrier.
- Study: Using a bot to think for you lowers your intellectual capacity.
- Americans are making their own weight loss drugs.
- Graduates of medical schools owe an average of more than $240,000 in medical debt. (NYT)
Friday Links
- John Goodman explains the GOP mega-bill to Bill O’Reilly.
- Michael Cannon: The GOP schedules most of the deficit increasing items (tax cuts and spending increases) in the early part of the budget window and puts most of the deficit reducing items (revenue increases and spending cuts) at the last part of the budget window.
- Blood test may indicate how long you will live.
- Over the past year, heath care has been responsible for over one-third of all employment growth.
- California leads the nation in housing shortages.
Thursday Links
- Capretta on entitlement reform.
- Harvard law school being sued for discriminating against white men.
- A country-wide 1985-1990 anti-alcohol campaign in the Soviet Union resulted in immediate, substantial and sustained reductions in alcohol consumption – with many positive social and health effects.
- Fourteen gems in the Senate tax bill.