Some seniors order drugs from abroad to save money. A few states are even considering mail-ordering cheaper drugs from Canada for state employees. Every employer cannot order drugs from Canada, however. There are just not enough drugs in Canada to serve their own population along with 100 million Americans with employee health coverage.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Thursday Links
- Sex matters. (Although some people are claiming it doesn’t)
- Julian Assange gets a plea deal: no jail time from misuse of classified documents. Hmm. Isn’t this the same crime for which a special prosecutor is trying to send Trump to prison?
- The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is wrong: Biden not Trump, added more to our pubic debt than any other president in history.
- “Black youth were 10 times more likely to die by homicide than white youth, and Native American youth were twice as likely to die by suicide than white youth.” Recommended.
- Is it hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk? No.
- The uninsured share of the population will rise from 7.7% to 8.9 percent in 2034.
Wednesday Links
- Study: Bans on flavored tobacco products don’t work.
- Are women taking over our health care system?
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There are 4.2 million nurses, over 1 million doctors, and over 1/2 million PAs and NPs in the US…. Women hold … 90% of all nursing positions, 66% of PAs, and 55% of all current Medical School slots.
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- NBER study: As hospital prices went up 1%, the percentage of people who ended up out of a job rose by 0.4% and payments for tax-funded unemployment insurance increased 2.5%.
- The total expense [of developing a new drug] is estimated at $1 billion on average. It takes 10 to 15 years. And nearly 90 percent of the candidate drugs that enter human clinical trials fail.
- Colorado wants to import drugs from Canada. Pharma is opposed.
NYT: Your Vet is Going High-Tech, and Expensive
Our dog Clementine is part of the family. (That’s her helping read her lab report. She’s a Golden Doodle rescue that spent her first year in Lake Tahoe before moving to Texas. She’s not a cheap date. She has three different veterinarians. She has a veterinary behaviorist for her mental health (she’s an odd dog). She also has a regular veterinarian for routine health needs, and we use a cheaper veterinary clinic housed in a Walmart for lab work and vaccinations. If we sound like overindulgent pet owners, we’re not alone according to the New York Times.