Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Joel Stein explains how to not pay your medical bills. The article, written tongue-in-cheek, is amusing but also touches on a serious topic.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Saturday Links
- Republicans are having more children than Democrats.
- “More than 370 million people worldwide need oxygen as part of their medical care, but fewer than 1 in 3 receive it.”
- Is Texas making a wrong turn on vaccines?
- The probability of an asteroid wiping out humanity in 2043 is much lower than advertised.
- More than 200,000 public housing units had to be demolished over the past 20 years because they proved to be uninhabitable.
- A solution for Covid-19-related hospital capacity issues: transparency.
Don’t Gut the FDA, Reform It!
The New York Times reports that new hires, who were supposed to beef up departments reviewing food safety, artificial intelligence, robotic surgical devices and insulin delivery systems, among many others, were cut this week. This is arbitrary because the medical device and drug industry pays user fees that support the operations of the FDA, not taxpayers.