- Fauci isn’t retiring after all.
- CBO: taxpayers would save billions of dollars and the number of people with health insurance would remain the same if the (Obamacare) extended subsidies are allowed to expire in December.
- The other side of waste: More spending leads to better health outcomes.
- Cato: Day Light Savings Time transition has been linked to increased risks of car accidents, heart attacks, and depressive symptoms in studies.
Category: Policy & Legislation
The Downside of Telemedicine: Tele-Fraud
The Justice Department announced criminal charges in a $1.2 billion telemedicine fraud scheme committed by numerous individuals across the United States. In some cases the owners of clinical labs are accused of paying kickbacks to marketers, who in turn paid bribes to telemedicine companies in return for physician orders.
Concentrated Health Care Markets
Michael Cannon at Cato writes:
By 2017, in most markets, a single hospital system had more than a 50 percent market share of discharges. In 2016, markets for specialist physicians exhibited what federal antitrust authorities consider a high degree of concentration in 65 percent of metropolitan areas. Markets for primary‐care physicians exhibited high concentration in 39 percent of metropolitan areas…. In 2016, 57 percent of health insurance markets exhibited high concentration; in 2018, 75 percent did.
Reefer Madness: Crashes Increased After Marijuana Legalized
A new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that auto accidents rose in states that legalized recreational marijuana. Car crashes with injuries jumped 6% while fatal auto accidents increased 4%. Comparison states that did not legalize recreational marijuana saw no increase in these types of accidents. The states that legalized recreational marijuana examined in the study were California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. The comparison states where cannabis is not legal were Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.