- Fracking has saved US consumers $3 to $4 trillion.
- Trump out-of-pocket limit for bronze plans in 2027: $15,600 for an individual and $27,600 for a family in 2027. (What are they thinking???)
- Are we underestimating health care productivity gains?
- Evidence that immigrant labor adds to the workforce and output and does not substitute for domestic labor or domestic labor output.
- Using ice may make pain last longer.
- Even when crime falls in America, it still generally leaves us about 5x as violent as Europe.
- Unbelievable: California Medicaid coves exorcisms.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Wednesday Links – 20 May 2026
- Trump adds 600 new drugs to TrumpRx.
- Even as 19 states have enacted total or near-total abortion bans, the number of abortions provided in the U.S. each year has risen.
- Regardless of a Supreme Court ruling, “Nothing is going to stop people from accessing abortion pills by mail. The genie is out of the bottle.”
- As college men have become increasingly scarce, college women have maintained stable marriage rates by marrying high-earning non-college men…. [This has] undermined the marriage prospects of non-college women.
Nurse Practitioners are Increasingly Treating Patients; Why Aren’t Pharmacists?
Advance practice nurses, such as nurse practitioners (NPs), are picking up some of the slack left by doctors of osteopathy (DOs) and medical doctors (MDs). NPs can do many of the same patient care tasks that physicians perform but with less training and at lower pay.
Single Payer is an Issue in California Governor’s Race
What are the differences between Single Payer, Medicare for All and Universal Coverage? Universal coverage is merely a system where everyone is covered. Obamacare was supposed to be universal coverage because it initially included an individual mandate. Medicare is a type of universal coverage for seniors. Medicare for All would expand eligibility down from age 65 to 0. Medicare for All would require the federal government to expand the program, with states playing a supporting role. It would not necessarily be the same program that exists today, except in name.