- How political are the medical journals?
- Cato symposium on covid.
- Milliman: the IRA law will increase drug cost for 5.7 million people.
- “Worldwide equality has grown continuously since 1990 for life expectancy, internet access, and education… Incomes became less equal until the mid‐2000s, but income equality has improved considerably since then.”
- Nonprofit hospital execs are raking in millions.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Should You Get Your Health Care at the Mall?
Unlike goods, services cannot be outsourced to Amazon. Is there a future for shopping malls? Indeed, some people have even suggested repurposing struggling shopping malls into retail space for medical services.
Saturday Links
- Manhattan Institute: Let private insurers negotiate drug prices instead of the government.
- Bipartisan PBM reform: “The bill would bar PBMs from steering, force sharing of nearly all rebates on prescriptions with health plans, allow patients to get their drugs from any in-network pharmacy, prevent overcharging patients above the reimbursement rate to the pharmacy, prohibit “spread pricing” where PBMs pocket the difference between what they tell the health plan a drug costs and what they reimburse the pharmacy, and much more.”
- When should the public be alerted to possible side effects from vaccines?
- Five of the 10 happiest countries are Nordic countries.
- UnitedHealth Group now employs or is affiliated with 10% of all physicians in the U.S. (STAT)
- Bird Flu: Right now, everyone getting sick works with animals; but given more time to circulate, the virus may get better at spreading human-to-human, which could result in a global wave of H5N1 infections.
Are Americans Taking Too Many Drugs?
I once read a comment from a doctor who said when he sees seniors who are on a dozen pharmaceutical drugs, half are to treat the side effects of the other half. What effect can too many medications have on seniors? You would be amazed.