- A 2023 study from the company itself estimated that Flock cameras are used in solving 700K crimes each year, or approximately 10% of all reported crime in the US.
- U.S. healthcare costs over $40,000 per household in 2026.
- Steuerle: If medical care prices had increased at the same rate as overall inflation, national health care expenditures in the U.S. would be about 8 percent of GDP today, rather than 18 percent.
- The real capital gains tax for many investments Is 50%.
- What Obama’s CEA report had to say about reforming health care in 2010.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Tuesday Links – 11 August 2026
- The percentage of working-age adults who get their health coverage from a job has declined from 67% in 1998 to about 60%.
- Orphan drugs: 167 drugs are exempt under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
- A brand new, peer-reviewed study found that data centers actually caused average U.S. retail electricity rates to “fall modestly” between 2015 and 2024, because the centers’ high, steady power demand helped spread a grid’s fixed costs over more usage.
- Tim Fist and Saif Khan: there’s a substantial chance that AI will kill most people on Earth within the next decade or two, by designing superviruses. AI is already capable of designing viruses not found in nature, so this isn’t a sci-fi scenario.
AMA’s Ownership of Medical Billing Codes Boosts Prices and Overhead Costs
Writing in Health Affairs, Ezekiel Emanuel and Kevin Schulman explain that one-quarter (25%) of health care spending is in on administration. The cost of health care administration is $1.5 trillion each year. Americans could save $1,200 on their health insurance premiums if administration were merely reduced by one-quarter Emanuel and Schulman claim. More from Health…