- Drug and device shortages are affecting patient care.
- Schwab: how a Roth IRA can reduce the Part B and Part D premiums for seniors.
- EBRI study: a 65-year-old couple needs as much as $383,000 in savings to have a 90% chance of covering their health care expenses for the rest of their lives.
- Yglesias interviews Melissa Kearney on two-parent privilege. Recommended. But she underestimates the penalties the welfare state imposes on marriage. See The Marriage Tax.
- Milton Friedman was right: there would be no lasting conflict in the Middle East if they had a laissez-faire economic regime.
- Obamacare gives insurers perverse incentive to buy doctors’ clinics, pharmacies, etc. And, that’s what they are doing.
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Cost and benefits of legalizing pot: The economic benefits are broadly distributed, while the social costs may be more concentrated among individuals who use marijuana heavily. Recommended.
- Capitation v. fee-for-service medicine: fewer visits and fever services.
- Alex Tabarrok on “deaths of despair.”
- Ending homelessness: the case for “Housing First.” Timothy Taylor is always good, but I think I disagree with this.
Friday Links
- “mRNA vaccines reached production despite the system, rather than because of it.”
- Fake health news on TikTok.
- To speed up drug approvals, recognize reliable approvals in other countries.
- Timothy Taylor: Update on the opioid epidemic.
- The National Portrait Gallery, which contains memorable drawings of great Americans throughout our nation’s history, is displaying a picture of Fauci????
Friday Links
- Kaiser: Insurers deny medical claims more often than you think.
- Enthoven in Health Affairs: likes our new Medicare book. A “must read.”
- Tom Miller: why most health policy is déjà vu.
- Why is mental health declining for young women? (NYT)
- Are Biden’s regulations the reason for a 20% drop in blood tests for transplant patients? (WSJ)
- How can you do a placebo-controlled drug trial if the disease affects only a few dozen people? (WSJ)