People who need expensive drugs are being overcharged so that drug insurance premiums can be artificially lowered for everyone – including all the people who don’t need those drugs. In this way, the sick are subsidizing the healthy.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
More on What Motivates Fauci
Both during AIDS and during Covid-19, Fauci and company fought the use of inexpensive, repurposed drugs to help people’s immune systems fight off the threats. [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] argues that they were motivated by a desire to bring pharmaceutical products to market—both antivirals and vaccines—without facing cheap competition, as a portion of Big Pharma’s profits would make their way into the public health officials’ pockets.
Quoted in a brief book review by David Henderson, who doesn’t necessarily agree with everything Kennedy has to say on the subject.
Saturday Links
- AEI endorses health system price controls. WHAT?
- Multiple agencies “misrepresented and deceived” lawmakers over experiments to swap genes between “more lethal” and “more transmissible” lineages of monkeypox.
- Money doesn’t buy happiness, but happy people are more successful.
- Why some people don’t get covid – even when exposed to it.
- Does spirituality affect health? (Speculative)
- Lawfare explained.
How to Eliminate Poverty
We found that “extremely” persistent poverty (people who remained more than eight years below the poverty) line was strongly associated with low economic freedom. An extra point on the index of economic freedom — which goes from 0 to 10 — caused a half-point reduction in the rate of extremely persistent poverty.
Source: Vincent Geloso, AIER https://www.aier.org/article/only-economic-freedom-pulls-people-out-of-poverty/