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Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care

Friday Links

Posted on September 5, 2025September 5, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • The No Surprises Act caused an 18% decline in out-of-pocket spending among adults with direct purchase private health insurance.
  • Which cities have the most crime? (Hint: they are mainly blue)
  • Why (Obamacare’s) mandated free screenings can make heath care worse for patients.
  • Arguments  for and against reconciliation 2.0
  • Some good news:

Take teen pregnancies. Since 1990, they have fallen 78% to an all-time low. Or drunk driving. Fatalities have dropped by over 55% since the 1980s and an astonishing 77% among those under age 21. Then there’s smoking.  At the time of the 1964 Surgeon General’s report linking cigarettes with cancer, 43% of adult Americans smoked. That number is now down to 12%.

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Thursday Links

Posted on September 4, 2025September 4, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Is US government debt becoming a serious problem?
  • More on bond prices.
  • Chinese innovation: China employs roughly 2.6 million full-time equivalent (FTE) researchers versus about 1.7 million in the United States.
  • CTUP: Biden made the poor poorer and Trump made everyone richer
  • How AI is affecting the job market.
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Wednesday Links

Posted on September 3, 2025September 2, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Why taxing the wealthy to support more consumption by everyone else will make us all worse off.
  • Trump ends collective bargaining for most federal workers.
  • No Surprise (Bills) Act: In 2024, providers won 85 percent of the disputes. Total 3-year cost: $5 billion.
  • Are AI tools making doctors worse at their jobs?
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KFF: Lawsuit Could Allow Snake Oil Salesmen Free Rein

Posted on September 2, 2025September 2, 2025 by Devon Herrick

There are a lot of bogus claims in health care. Even many drugs that are FDA approved seem to oversell their effectiveness and under-report their side effects. There are limits to the health claims product manufacturers are allowed to make, however. Drug makers and dietary supplement manufacturers are required to back up health claims or face the wrath of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 

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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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