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Category: Direct Primary Care

Wednesday Links

Posted on November 15, 2023November 15, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Life expectancy for men in the U.S. falls to 73 years — six years less than for women.
  • Noah Smith lauds Singapore but neglects to mention Medisave accounts.
  • What discount rate should be used in evaluating changes in health policies?
  • Should medical screenings be based on cost/benefit analysis or on the patient’s willingness to pay?
  • A tribute to Vernon Smith – long time friend of the Goodman Institute.
  • Does the case for a free society depend on the existence of free will?
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Should Employers Fund Rare Disease Research and Therapies?

Posted on November 14, 2023November 14, 2023 by Devon Herrick

Included in Friday Links (November 10) was the title, “Would coverage for gene therapies make employer-based health insurance unaffordable?” That raises an important question: How much should employers (and employees) be required to pay for hyper-expensive therapies very few people need? A related question: should the purpose of employee health coverage be to recruit and retain workers or fund rare disease research and therapies?

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Meditation & Mindfulness: Relief from Anxiety and Stress or a New Age Pseudoscience?

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Devon Herrick

If you like to slow down and clear your mind through a structured mindfulness activity every day, feel free to do so. Just don’t think it will cure your multiple myeloma.

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Saturday Links

Posted on November 11, 2023November 10, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • A Harvard-affiliated hospital is testing magic mushrooms on dying patients.
  • The down side of psychedelic trips.
  • Only 4 percent of children have received the updated COVID-19 vaccine.
  • WHO:  TB is the world’s number one killer; 40 percent of people who are living with TB are untreated and undiagnosed.
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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.

John C. Goodman,

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