Joe Biden has cancer. His doctors diagnosed him with an aggressive form of State 4 prostate cancer that has already spread to his bones. Many experts are asking how could this happen?
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Tuesday Links
- Have we turned the corner on drug overdose deaths?
- Montana expands “right to try” – not just to the terminally ill.
- “A [family] in London with two children under five is better off earning £99,999 than £149,000.”
- Medicaid physician fees were approximately 71 percent of Medicare physician fees in 2024, including 69 percent for office visits, 68 percent for hospital and emergency department visits.
- As states are unwinding their Medicaid populations (from Covid levels), total drug prescriptions are unchanged: the drop in prescriptions paid for by Medicaid or CHIP has been mostly offset mostly offset by an increase in commercial-paid prescriptions.
Saturday Links
- Real 403B reform would “require that savings are passed directly to patients at the pharmacy counter—not buried in hospital spreadsheets.”
- 31% of men ages 25-40 who are not working full-time collected some form of cash or cash-equivalent benefit in the form of food stamps, Social Security for disability, Supplemental Security Income, or unemployment insurance in the prior year.
- China v. the U.S.: China’s share of total world gross domestic product has grown from 3.5 percent in 2000 to just under 17 percent today, while the US has gone from 30 percent to 26 percent. During this same period, China has gone from 6 percent to over 30 percent of total world manufacturing output, while the US has fallen from 25 percent to 17 percent.
- Covid update: The parents most reluctant to send their kids back to school in blue cities in the spring of 2021 were black and Hispanic, research has consistently found, not white. And the most organized opposition to school reopening came from teachers’ unions,
- The case for turning Social Security into a flat benefit.
- House Medicaid reforms graph by graph.
- The House reconciliation package will add at least $3.3 trillion to the debt through 2034.
How to Save Money on Prescription Drugs
Years ago I wrote about how to save money on prescription drugs. I periodically updated the report. It was popular with reporters at a time when consumers were worried about the excessive cost of drugs. This was before Obamacare (2010) when many people did not have drug coverage. While perusing the Internet I ran across a recent article on the same topic. It included many of my old tips, so I thought it worth discussing.