- Why are the esteemed models of medical governance (e.g., Intermountain Health, Geisinger, and the Mayo Clinic) located in the hinterland, instead of in the big cities?
- Scientists have known for two decades that Sudafed was no better than a placebo.
- Nearly all entrepreneurs face serious mental health challenges.
- A critical reassessment of statins.
- Is it time to update the “value of a statistical life”?
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Hospitals Are Not a Local Jobs Program
Since before Covid hospitals have been complaining about low profit margins and low cash reserves. This is especially true of rural hospitals that face multiple threats from: 1) more uninsured 2) more publicly insured patients and 3) smaller markets, with less economies of scale.
Monday Links
- Insurers have made out like bandits under Obamacare.
- Paragon study: The cost to the taxpayers of Obamacare is $36,798 per additional private insurance enrollee.
- The leader of Hamas is headquartered in Qatar – the same country that hosted the World Cup.
- Tyler Cowen (channeling the Economist) on why Argentina may elect a libertarian president.
- Who is better at keeping food safe? Public health agencies? Or the restaurants themselves?
- Reducing hospital costs without hurting patients.
Saturday Links
- Arthur Laffer: requiring health care providers to post prices for their medical services could save more than $500 billion a year.
- A disappointing discovery: Jim Jordan was willing to Jordan increase the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions – benefiting wealthy taxpayers in blue states – in order to get votes for the speakership.
- Study: repealing Certificate of Need laws leads to more hospitals in urban and rural areas.
- $233 million: what blue states receive that they wouldn’t receive if federal grants reflected these state’s population losses.