- Food Stamp spending is on a path to exceed the Biden baseline.
- HHS, Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine”
- Capital punishment for Bruce the dog. A California court ordered euthanization for an Anatolian Shephard accused of biting three people, including a child, and knocking over a man pushing a wheel chair. Supreme Court appeal was too late. (NYT)
- Street medicine: More than 150 programs across the country provide medical care to people sleeping outside — on sidewalks, in encampments, under overpasses. (NYT)
- Four million children in the United States are caring for an adult family member who is sick or disabled or old.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Who is to Blame for the High Cost of Health Care?
Stakeholder in the U.S. health care system constantly play the Blame Game. When policymakers want to reform the health care system stakeholders always seem to blame each other for what is wrong. Take drugmakers for example. Over the past dozen years Big Pharma has run a public relations campaign blaming Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) for high drug prices. There is something to this claim, but it’s not that straight forward.
Monday Links – 7 September 2026
- 59 cents of every federal dollar is spent on social programs.
- The importance of GDP per capita.”
- “We find no statistically significant evidence that data-center presence, installed capacity, or capacity expansion predicts residential electricity-price inflation across extensive-margin, intensive-margin, fixed-effects, and timing specifications.”
- What to know about “synthetic cells.” (Vox)
- Should diabetes patients be able to sue food companies for their conditions.
Saturday Links – 5 September 2026
- US health care spending has outpaced OECD spending since the passage of Obamacare.
- America is the only country where a majority of people think their fellow citizens are “morally bad.”
- Why are drug overdose deaths declining?
- How Trump’s latest pharma deals may undermine efforts to rein in drug costs.
- The Hospital at Home program is ready to scale.