- 16 ways the Biden/Harris administration has made housing more expensive.
- Casy Mulligan: Biden Harris regulations will cost the average family $50,000 over a lifetime.
- Price negotiation does not save money when you are paying for drugs that don’t work.
- Scientists are getting better at pinpointing our biological age. Can they reverse the process?
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Alzheimer’s May Be an Autoimmune Disorder Rather Than a Brain Disease
More than six million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s dementia. This figure is expected to double by 2050. Alzheimer’s patients can often be cared for in the home by family in the initial stages of the disease. However, at some point they require more care than most family members can provide.
Tuesday Links
- The anesthetic drug Matthew Perry overdosed on can be received through the mail. (NYT)
- Free food: 19 million children ate a free lunch last year and 11.1 million ate a free breakfast. (NYT)
- Orszag: DOJ is challenging vertical integration of health care companies, but that is how Obamacare is supposed to work.
- Goodman and Moore: Trump is onto something on Social Security taxation: here is how to fix it.
Should Medicare Ration Drugs?
Should Medicare (and other health plans for that matter) be required to cover every drug, every hyper expensive medical procedure and every therapy that holds a modicum of benefits? Asked another way, should some types of rationing be allowed?