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Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care

Friday Links

Posted on October 14, 2022October 13, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Even though drugs can be a highly effective therapy, most states prohibit psychologists from prescribing medications for their mental health patients.
  • Pandemic spending waste: only one quarter of the jobs supported by PPP funds would have disappeared without the program and the funds rarely reached their intended target of rank-and-file workers.
  • Paragon report: Medicaid now has more than 15 million ineligible recipients.
  • New medical tech claim: a complete genome mapping for$100.
  • How that could change medicine.
  • Progressive Caucus wants to change the name of Medicare Advantage to curtail its popularity.
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Births are Now Emergencies (Replete with ER Charges)

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Devon Herrick

My mother told the story about my birth on a few occasions. She went into labor and my father drove her to the hospital 40 miles away. A nurse at the hospital assured my mother her baby wasn’t yet due. My mother explained she was in labor nonetheless. I don’t recall whether she called her doctor or if the hospital called him. How things have changed since I was born. The natural process that’s been occurring in humans for 200,000 to 300,000 years has now become a medical procedure requiring with emergency care.

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Biden’s Next Big Headache (and Consumers’): Health Care Inflation

Posted on October 12, 2022 by Devon Herrick

Rising inflation has been in the news lately. About every lawn guy in my far North Texas neighborhood raised his weekly mowing fee about $10 per lawn this spring. Various food items at my local store seemed to have risen in price by 15%, if they’re in stock at all. Even my wife’s Ezekiel Cinnamon & Raisin muffins that used to cost $5.99 were $9.49 the other day at Krogers.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on October 12, 2022October 11, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Ants outnumber humans by at least 2.5 million to 1.
  • IRS is set to approve Biden “rule change” to fix the Obamacare “family glitch,” by spending $45 billion without congressional approval and without hearing from any of the opponents of the change.
  • The Biden administration defends itself, by ignoring criticisms.
  • As prosecutor, Kamala Harris and her attorneys convicted more than 1,900 people for marijuana possession.
  • Are people eating too little salt?
  • The biggest problem with long term care: Medicaid.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

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