- Study: physician assisted suicide is at least the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada.
- It’s more common for people in rural areas to die earlier than urban residents from things like heart disease, cancer and stroke.
- If a doctor followed the preventive care checklist recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (services everyone is entitled to for free by Obamacare legislation) it would take 8.6 of the doctor’s hours each day – leaving no time to do anything else.
- 60% of baby and toddler food doesn’t meet nutrition standards.
- The US approach replaces more than 73 percent of pre-retirement earnings for average workers (with Social Security plus pension income), significantly higher than the OECD average of 55.3 percent.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Cato: Medicare Should Let Seniors Control the Funds that Pays for their Care
Adjunct scholars at the Cato Institute want the government to give seniors the money spent on Medicare by depositing it into a health savings account. The idea is that consumers – seniors in this case – are better stewards of their money than a profligate spending government program.
Friday Links
- Effects of the IRA bill: From 2023 to 2024, the average Part D premium rose by 21 percent — the highest increase ever. The Kaiser Family Foundation reported that the three largest Part D sponsors — Cigna, Humana, and Aetna — increased premiums for certain common plans anywhere from 33 percent to 57 percent.”
- The number of people getting married (per capita) has fallen to an all time low.
- IRA and CHIPS industrial policy: only 3% of projects are operational; and less than half are on track.
- Chris Pope: Elderly entitlement programs take from the poor and give to the rich.
- How testosterone and culture affect behavior of boys v. girls.
- Study: the federal government could save taxpayers up to $2.15 billion annually if insurers operating in the Medicare prescription drug plans purchased seven generic oncology drugs at the prices obtained by Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs.
JAMA: Nearly Half of U.S. Counties Have a Pharmacy Desert
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) I grew up in a pharmacy desert. The nearest pharmacy was also nearly 20 miles away. An article in JAMA Network reports that 46% of American counties contain at last one pharmacy desert.