Many malls are struggling financially because Amazon and other online retailers have taken away business from brick & mortar stores. The pace accelerated with Covid as non-essential retail locations faced a lockdown. However, some struggling malls are finding a new life as medical facilities.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Are Drug Companies Bribing Patients?
Bribery is common in some parts of the world, but bribes are illegal in the United States. Bribes are a form of corruption. That is, paying a bribe corrupts an otherwise market-based, competitive transaction.
Doctors as Slave Labor
For many years Cuba has been sending doctors to practice medicine in other countries. Yet far from being a humanitarian exercise, Cuba has actually been engaging in human trafficking for profit.
Insulin
Before a Trump executive order, employers could not provide free or subsidized insulin to their diabetic employees without sacrificing the employees’ right to have a Health Savings Account. This meant that employees had to spend their entire health insurance deductible out of pocket before any employer cost sharing took effect. The Trump administration’s change leaves employers and employees free to engage in the kind of cost-sharing arrangements that make economic and health care sense.