Menu
The Goodman Institute Health Blog
  • Home
  • Authors
    • Devon Herrick, Ph.D.
    • John C. Goodman
  • Popular Topics
    • Affordable Care Act
    • Consumer-Driven Health Care
      • Cost of Healthcare
      • COVID-19 and Public Health
      • Doctors & Hospitals
      • Public Insurance
      • Policy & Legislation
    • Direct Primary Care
    • Drug Prices & Regulations
    • Health Economics & Costs
    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reform
    • Medical Tourism
    • Medicare
    • Single-Payer/Medicare-for-All
    • Telemedicine
  • Goodman Institute
  • Contact
The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Category: Drug Prices & Regulations

Monday Links

Posted on March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Why diet when you can take a pill?
  • AEI study: In Utah, nearly 100% of children leave foster care within three years, while in Illinois, less than half do.
  • Sex life of turtles.
  • Health Affairs study: HHS reduction in Medicare Advantage payments will cause $60 per year premium increase per beneficiary, small copay increases, and increases of about $27 in annual deductibles.
  • Can robots replace caregivers for the elderly? (NYT)
+

Sunday Links

Posted on March 26, 2023March 25, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • AAF study of the effects of Medicare’s coming drug price negotiations: fewer than 6 million beneficiaries – less than 10% of enrollees – will benefit at all and for those with any saving 69% of will save less than $300. 
  • Given Trump and Biden executive orders promoting the idea, why is it taking so long to allow states to import drugs from Canada?
  • Health Affairs authors: giving insulin to patients for free is cost effective. So why don’t insurers – including Medicare Part D insurers – do that? I explained that months ago.
  • How health care was rationed during the pandemic: Mississippi case study.
  • Left-of-center Tax Policy Center: people earning less than $400,000 will pay more taxes under the new Biden budget proposal.  A lot more taxes!
+

Saturday Links

Posted on March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Did you know that commercial airlines have to obey a speed limit?
  • Digital therapies that sought FDA approval are expensive and in a regulatory morass. Is there a non-FDA approach that is possible?
  • How worried should we be over a drug resistant fungus?
  • Views on AI’s risk to humanity.
  • Scott Sumner’s take: the worry is not that an intelligent AI will destroy the world. It’s that a depressed person will use AI to destroy the world.
  • A different view of the Waco tragedy – one more sympathetic to the Branch Davidians.
+

Tuesday Links

Posted on March 21, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • California is making its own insulin.
  • The two leading covid origin theories — lab leak and Wuhan wet market — could both be true.
  • An electronic tattoo can track your emotions.
  • UT Austin has invented a version that fits on your palm.
  • Three out of four Florida kids are in a school of choice that is different from their assigned local school.
+
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 53
  • Next

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,

Visit www.goodmaninstitute.org

Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 12 other subscribers

Popular Topics

©2023 The Goodman Institute Health Blog | Website by Lexicom