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.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
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.
Is Your Doctor and Health Plan Woke Enough?
Health disparities have bewildered public health advocates for decades. It has long been known that health status and health outcomes often vary by education, ethnicity, race, gender and numerous other factors. Sidenote: when you control for education, the other variables lose much of their significance.