- An argument on drug shortages: GPOs are not the problem. (Stat News)
- Biden executive orders have cost us more than $2 trillion, based on CBO estimates.
- CBO: the CMS funded models of care (designed to lower cost and improve quality) are increasing (not decreasing) federal health care spending.
- Study: subsidizing women’s work drives down birth rates.
- Laws on the books in half the states could make you responsible for paying for your parents nursing home care.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Why Is My Dog’s Vet Bill So High? (Because Private Equity Bought the Veterinary Clinic)
Veterinary medicine is big business and private equity investors are taking notice. Medical spending on companion animals is up sharply and stands at nearly $40 billion annually. Private equity has poured more than $60 billion into veterinary investments since 2017. Investors are snapping up practices and raising prices. You may think you’re going to the same vet you’ve gone to for years. Then one day the prices are much higher, and you’re pressured to get more services than usual.
Saturday Links
- FDA endorses the idea of a hospital at home – utilizing digital technology.
- Alex Tabarrok on the plusses and minuses of non-competes.
- The benefits of vaccines.
- Hypochondriacs don’t want to be cured.
- Not all of the NIH “cancer myths” are really myths.
- The uneasy case for banning Chinese pharmaceuticals.
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.