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Category: Policy & Legislation

The Cost of Pet Cancer Care Rivals a Car, Yet Texas Limits Competition

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Devon Herrick

This topic became an issue for me because of my dog Clementine. I recently wrote about her experience at the veterinarian. She had surgery for bladder stones, but the surgery did not resolve her problems. We took her back twice more, finally getting a referral to a specialist. A veterinary internal medicine specialist did a very thorough examination costing nearly $1,500. The pathology report found cancer that had metastasized.

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Monday Links

Posted on October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Against killing drug smugglers on speed boats. (NYT)
  • FREOPP: To end the  government shutdown, let heath plans age rate their premiums and create reinsurance. (WaPo)
  • Study: The poorest Americans die, on average, nine years earlier than the wealthiest Americans.
  • Premiums on healthcare.gov set to rise by 30%: “Without the expiring subsidies, healthy people will drop out.”
  • Is the feminization of society the reason for the rise of wokeness?
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Thursday Links

Posted on October 23, 2025October 22, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • An Yglesias ode to rational economics.
  • Almost everything there is to know about ICHRAs.
  • More than 30 states continue to enforce certificate of need laws.
  • Nature’s different ways of producing magic mushrooms.
  • Hooper: test new drugs for safety, not efficacy. (WSJ)
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Saturday Links

Posted on October 18, 2025October 17, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • 6,000 truckers could not pass an English reading test.
  • Why Joe Klein is supporting Andrew Cuomo for mayor of NYC.
  • How illegals get Medicaid health care in California and Oregon. (Scroll down to the middle section)
  • How does a state get money from the new $50 Rural Health Transformation (RHT) program? The state’s odds improve if the state’s odds improve if it exempts non-nutritious items from its food stamp program, if it rolls back or eliminates certificate of need laws, and if it avoids Biden-type restrictions on short-term, limited duration heath insurance.
  • Why the West took off 250 years ago and China didn’t.
  • AEI: “What is a fair contribution? If the enhanced subsidies expire, the premium for a family of four earning $75,000 per year will rise to $5,865 – which is $3,368 more than if they are extended. To be sure, that family would feel the increase. But according to my calculations, average annual US health-care spending per household is around $37,000. From this perspective, that family may be getting a good deal.”
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