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Category: Drug Prices & Regulations

Monday Links

Posted on March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • More young people are getting cancer.
  • FDA gives up in its battle against ivermectin.
  • Adultery is a crime in New York. (And you don’t get a jury trial.)
  • US life expectancy is rising again. HT: Tyler.
  • Future deficit spending may be worse than what the CBO is projecting.
  • For the first time since the Black death, the world’s population is set to decline.
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Saturday Links

Posted on March 23, 2024March 22, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • The U.S. is no longer among the top 20 happiest countries.
  • Saving lives with pig kidneys.
  • Why is fetal tissue research so controversial?
  • Liberating the pharmacists.
  • Highest drug price ever: $4.25 million per treatment.
  • Site neutrality (same fee regardless of where the procedure is performed) would save Medicare more than $3.7 billion over the next decade, and lower beneficiary co-payments by $40 a visit. 
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Should Patient Assistance Programs Count Towards Your Deductible (should they even be legal?)

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Devon Herrick

Demand curves are downward sloping. There I said it! It’s apparently controversial to many public health advocates and Members of Congress. All the while, supply curves slope upward. If you don’t know what I’m talking about you should not have slept through your Econ 101 class in college. You can boil this down to “people buy less when prices rise” and  “incentives matter.”

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Wednesday Links

Posted on March 20, 2024March 19, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • “We estimate the costs of lockdowns were at least 10 times higher than the public health benefits. Fewer than 10.000 lives were saved but hundreds of thousands of lives were lost, while the economic and educational losses are in the multiple trillions of dollars.” 
  • For $500,000, you can have a meal in space.
  • A Republican bill would ban DEI in medical schools: No  racist teaching; no racial discrimination; no loyalty oaths; and no DEI offices.  (WSJ)
  • Viagra could be good for your brain.
  • During the pandemic, Paxlovid was free — courtesy of the federal government. Now it cost $1,600.
  • Why is Oprah Winfrey shilling for Eli Lilly?
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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.

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