Most care is self-care, at least initially. The most common way Americans care for themselves is with an OTC drug.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Saturday Links
Insurers (including Medicare and Medicaid) should be required to let their enrollees keep 100 percent of the savings from price shopping for care. So, for instance, if a patient opts for a surgeon charging $4,000 for a procedure, and the insurer would normally pay $5,000 for the service, the patient should get to keep the $1,000 from choosing the lower-priced option.
This is much easier to do with a a Heath Savings Account
Coming Apart
The children of the affluent have advantages every step of the way. As Markovits has noted, the academic gap between the rich and the poor is larger than the academic gap between white and Black students in the final days of Jim Crow.
Source: David Brooks, The Atlantic
Friday Links
- Biden Medicaid regulations (with no congressional input) will cost federal taxpayer as much as $134.8 billion over five years and state taxpayers as much as $82.6 billion over five years.
- “We estimate that 59.4 percent of illegal immigrant households use one or more welfare programs.”
- Is the FDA killing people?
- Betsy McCaughey: What RFK, Jr. gets right.
- “Inflation did make the median voter poorer during Biden’s term. In no part of the income distribution did wages grow faster while Biden was President than they did 2012-2020.”