- FTC to target patent abuses. (WSJ)
- Eylea (which costs more than $1,800 for a single dose) has been granted over 90 granted patents—including one for minor adjustments to its sterile packaging.
- Tomas Philipson: So called “patent abuses” are exaggerated.
- What the FDA gets wrong about drugs for rare diseases.
- Capretta: Americans spend more on healthcare than other countries because of “premium medicine”: procedures that offer minimal benefits at high cost.
- An argument for more regulation of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. Although very one-sided. Our biggest problem is that the chronically ill are under-consuming drugs, not over-consuming them.
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Does health care improve health? Scott Alexander contra Robin Hanson.
- Certificate of need (CON) laws still operate in 35 states.
- Why Medicare won’t pay for additional breast scans.
- Is the government hiding something about the “Havana Syndrome”?
- Why ACOs aren’t working.
- Cost of new regulations under Biden: $1.37 trillion.
Friday Links
- Why a nursing home staff mandate will hurt patients.
- Trends in health care: private equity, M & A and digital health.
- Cato study: charter schools improve reading scores and reduce absenteeism at traditional public schools.
- How to increase US economic growth and why that matters.
- Biden has raised more money from tariffs than Trump did.
Friday Links
- Do you know what a “walkaway death” is?
- Headline I wish I hadn’t seen:
One of the Heritage Foundation’s telehealth policy recommendations for a 2025 GOP president stands at stark odds with policies advocated by telehealth stakeholders and included in GOP-backed telehealth aimed at cementing Medicare telehealth permanency.
- Heritage, of course is right. See Mandate for Leadership (2025) Pages 483 and 488.
- How California uses Medicaid to rip you off. It taxes providers, then gives the money back as Medicaid funding and draws federal matching money in the process. (WSJ)
- NYT (for the first time, I think) allows its lead editorial to advocate the buying and selling of kidneys. (NYT)
- Glasses matter: Garment workers, artisans and tailors in Bangladesh who were provided with free reading glasses experienced a 33 percent increase in income compared to those who were not given glasses.
- More on Glasses: For nearly a billion people in the developing world, reading glasses are a luxury that many cannot afford. (NYT)