- Were the Dark Ages really all that dark?
- Most expensive state for health insurance (cost/median monthly household income): West Virginia. Least expensive state: Maryland.
- The bad news on single payer heath insurance.
- Why the Medicare Trustees failed to predict the cost-increasing consequences of the IRA bill.
Category: Policy & Legislation
Friday Links – 10 July 2026
- KFF: ACA to experience double digit premium increases this fall.
- Why does the AMA control our billing codes. Is there a better way?
- Does our payment system dictate what therapies patient receive?
- Argument: let pharmacists prescribe for routine conditions – especially in rural and underserved areas.
- To lower health care costs, end three abusive and common contracting terms used by hospitals to inflate their revenue.
Top 5% of Americans Pay 59% of Federal Taxes
Yet progressives say that’s not enough; they want to soak the rich even more.
NYT: Trump is Shifting Gun Violence from Public Health to Criminal Enforcement
Nearly 50,000 Americans die every year from gunshots, while nearly 60% are self-inflicted. About 23,434 Americans who die from gun violence, nearly six-in-ten are black. Oddly enough, most black gun deaths are by other black people (89%), while 79% of white gun homicides are perpetrated by other white people. A fundamental question is whether gun violence is a public health problem, or a crime problem?