Drug Prices & Regulations – Page 96 – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Friday Links

Posted on September 20, 2024September 20, 2024 by John C. Goodman

Medicare price negotiation for new drugs may not affect drug company revenues as much as was originally thought.
30-year-olds: living on their own and not marrying.
Cato study: the largest states got the most covid aid (per capita) and this boosted the re-election chances for the incumbents in Congress.
The left’s answer to the housing crisis: override local zoning ordinances. [Of course, these are congressional liberals. Local liberal are the ones who create the zoning restrictions.]
New study: there is no evidence supporting affirmative action in medical school admissions.
It takes 15 years and 2.6 billion dollars to discover, develop, and bring a drug to market.

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Thursday Links

Posted on September 19, 2024September 18, 2024 by John C. Goodman

63% of Americans want to increase trade with other nations.
Should we have a generous child tax credit paid for by higher corporate income taxes? AAF finds that even in the best-case scenario, labor supply would fall by 0.4 percent, after-tax wages by 0.3 percent, consumption by 0.1 percent, investment by 1.2 percent, and GDP by 0.4 percent.
A favorite story on the enviro left is that Rapa Nui (Easter Island) experienced population collapse because of ecocide. [And therefore, is a harbinger of everything that is happening today.] Turns out the story is wrong. And this isn’t usual. James Pethokoukis says almost all “degrowth” scholarship is shoddy.
Europeans are less than 3/4 as rich as Americans. And contrary to popular belief, only a small amount of the gap can be accounted for by the fact that Americans work more.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on September 18, 2024September 18, 2024 by John C. Goodman

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Tuesday Links

Posted on September 17, 2024September 17, 2024 by John C. Goodman

About eight million US families are headed by single mothers, and of those nearly three million live below the poverty line defined by the government. 45% receive Food Stamps.
President Biden, who promised “I will never cut Medicare,” has agreed to extend his planned cuts in Medicare Advantage spending over three years instead of all at once.
Roughly a third of eighth graders are not proficient in reading or math and that number has been rising over the last decade.

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