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Category: Policy & Legislation

Tuesday Links

Posted on September 26, 2023September 26, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • The Board of Tea Experts, established on March 2, 1897, is finally being mothballed.
  • Deborah Laufer has filed more than 600 different lawsuits —typically against small hotels — and Laufer accuses them of failing to comply with the federal disabilities law. Will the Supreme Court shut her down?
  • Yglesias: Loneliness isn’t aloneness. And contra Nicholas Kristof, it is highly correlated with low incomes.
  • Tyler Cowen: ten ideas on reducing the number of single parent families.
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Saturday Links

Posted on September 23, 2023September 23, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Patience is correlated with more success in school.
  • “Aspirations cannot become law.” Sen. Bill Cassidy on Bernie Sanders’ latest health care proposal.
  • Peter Nelson: How to make price transparency better.
  • Is a female takeover of elite occupations taking place?
  • Penn Wharton model: The federal government’s unfunded liability is $244.8 billion.
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Hospital Online Price Estimators Don’t Match Phone Quotes

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Devon Herrick

Hospitals make it notoriously difficult to know the price prior to a service. Prices are hard to obtain and often meaningless when disclosed. Indeed, there isn’t one price but many prices depending upon who the payer is. There is a different price for BlueCross, Aetna, Cigna and most other health plans. There is the chargemaster…

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Thursday Links

Posted on September 21, 2023September 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Who pays higher prices for medical care: commercial insurer’s or self-insured employer plans?
  • Pharma’s case against PBMs.
  • Roughly a quarter of children live in a one-parent home, more than in any other country.  (NYT) Charles Murray made the same points a decade before the Gray Lady discovered the problem.
  • Only about one in five Americans think abortion should be allowed after the state of pregnancy in which the fetus is viable outside the womb (about 23 or 24 weeks).
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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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