- NPR: $142,938 in medical costs for a young camper’s snakebite.
- Robert Graboyes tells the rest of the story: the family paid none of the bill.
- CBO: Over the next 30 years, federal spending averages 25.7 percent of GDP while revenues average 18.4 percent of GDP.
- Green madness: You’d have to burn a pizza stove 849 years to equal one year of John Kerry’s private jet.
- Drug shortages explained: Over time, price and margin erosion lead to essential medicines becoming low-margin commodities, and eventual production and supply issues create vulnerability to shortages and susceptibility to low reinvestment.
- Medicaid managed care explained: Enrollment in the lowest-spending plan reduces spending by at least 25 percent [but] rather than reducing “wasteful” spending, lower-spending plans broadly reduce medical service provision— including the provision of low-cost, high-value care—and worsen beneficiary satisfaction and health.
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Woke ideology is subverting biology.
- About 40 percent of those surveyed said they had delayed or gone without care in the last year because of the expense.
- Cassidy: Sanders is prioritizing partisan labor legislation (that will never pass the Senate) over bipartisan health legislation (that could pass. (InsideHealthPolicy – gated)
- Medicare reform failures: “While MACRA’s goal of moving Medicare beyond fee-for-service and towards paying for value was reasonable and broadly popular, its … alternative payment models have not fostered quality improvement … and … have also failed to deliver savings.”
- Effect of Lockdowns plus teacher unions: 13-year-olds record lowest test scores in decades.
Friday Links
- Blockbuster story: First person sickened by COVID-19 was the Chinese scientist who oversaw the “gain of function” research that created the virus.
- Harvard Medical School morgue manager and others sold stolen human remains.
- Health care to consume one out of every five dollars of national income.
- More progress on quantum computing.
- Is Merck being “coerced” by Medicare? Michael Cannon: No. David Henderson: Yes.
Friday Links
- Could redistribution of income make people healthier? Evidence that the answer is “yes.”
- 330 COVID-19 articles in science journals have been retracted.
- NYC to help patients compare hospital costs. (NYT)
- More from Graboyes on sterilization.
- Steve Moore to Congress: ESG is harmful to retirees.
- Merck sues over IRA drug price negotiation: It’s an unconstitutional “taking” and it also “compels speech.”