- Arnold Kling: My model of nonprofits says that they please donors without necessarily accomplishing anything.
- The increase in pedestrian deaths is not caused by larger vehicles.
- Making medical school tuition free won’t solve the shortage of primary care physicians.
- Why a full body MRI is not a good idea even if it’s free.
- Newer antibiotics are safer and more effective. So why aren’t doctors prescribing them?
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Saturday Links
- Paragon: The lifetime benefits the average senior will receive from Medicare will soon reach $750,000, after paying only $200,000 in taxes.
- Should pooled have a property/privacy right in their own brain waves? (NYT)
- How restrictive are the networks of Medicare Advantage plans?
- Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of the U.S. population as a whole.
- Trend in state health reforms: regulating instead of markets.
- Why does mortality go down in recessions?
STAT News: Nonprofit Hospitals Should Pay Taxes on Profits
The phrase nonprofit does not mean nonprofit organizations do not earn profits. Any organization that loses money every single year will soon go out of business. At the very least nonprofit organizations must break even. Nonprofit status is a tax election. It means in theory the organization is supposed to plow all profits back into a charitable mission, rather than distribute profits to shareholders (of which there are none in a nonprofit organization). In reality nonprofit hospitals plow most of their profits into expansion.
Friday Links
- Why a nursing home staff mandate will hurt patients.
- Trends in health care: private equity, M & A and digital health.
- Cato study: charter schools improve reading scores and reduce absenteeism at traditional public schools.
- How to increase US economic growth and why that matters.
- Biden has raised more money from tariffs than Trump did.