- An argument on drug shortages: GPOs are not the problem. (Stat News)
- Biden executive orders have cost us more than $2 trillion, based on CBO estimates.
- CBO: the CMS funded models of care (designed to lower cost and improve quality) are increasing (not decreasing) federal health care spending.
- Study: subsidizing women’s work drives down birth rates.
- Laws on the books in half the states could make you responsible for paying for your parents nursing home care.
Category: Policy & Legislation
Saturday Links
- FDA endorses the idea of a hospital at home – utilizing digital technology.
- Alex Tabarrok on the plusses and minuses of non-competes.
- The benefits of vaccines.
- Hypochondriacs don’t want to be cured.
- Not all of the NIH “cancer myths” are really myths.
- The uneasy case for banning Chinese pharmaceuticals.
Friday Links
- Does health care improve health? Scott Alexander contra Robin Hanson.
- Certificate of need (CON) laws still operate in 35 states.
- Why Medicare won’t pay for additional breast scans.
- Is the government hiding something about the “Havana Syndrome”?
- Why ACOs aren’t working.
- Cost of new regulations under Biden: $1.37 trillion.
FTC to Ban Noncompete Agreements. Will Your Doctor be Freed Too?
Nowadays nearly three-quarters of physicians are hospital employees or employed by investor-owned group practices. Many are bound by employment agreements that limit their ability to easily leave a job for a new one.