I have a theory that health care system dysfunction bleeds over and corrupts other areas of medicine even where insurance is far less common.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Saturday Links
- Evidence for and against the “just give people cash” version of the welfare state. (Item 1)
- Between 1970 and 2020, the number of U.S. physicians doubled, the number of non-clinical healthcare workers –bureaucrats or administrators of all types – increased by more than 4,400 percent! That’s 44 non-care givers for every one care giver.
- In 2005, the average cost of care for the MMI’s household was $12,214. Twenty years later, it had reached $35,119 —a 188 percent increase.
- Traditional Medicare is about to try out aggressive preauthorization.
- The case for drinking alcohol.
- High tariff countries are generally very poor.
Friday Links
- 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%.
Thursday Links
- 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.