Unlike goods, services cannot be outsourced to Amazon. Is there a future for shopping malls? Indeed, some people have even suggested repurposing struggling shopping malls into retail space for medical services.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Monday Links
- What do Democrats have against marriage?
- California Blocks Life-Sustaining Telehealth Treatment.
- Raj Chetty, et. al.: For children in the U.S. born between 1978 and 1992, income class gaps grew and race gaps shrank, and similarly for non-monetary outcomes such as educational attainment, standardized test scores, and mortality rates.
- “Every attorney general fights for state power and police prerogatives. It’s part of the job. But over and over again, [Kamala] Harris went beyond the call of duty, fighting for harsher sentences, larger bail requirements, longer prison terms, more prosecution of petty crimes, greater criminal justice involvement in low-income and minority communities, less due process for people in the system, less transparency, and less accountability for bad cops.”
- “The cost of wearing a mask for two weeks, for me personally, is higher than the benefit of a 3% reduction in the risk of getting a cold.”
- Expanding scope of practice authority for dental hygienists: “Overall the effects were modest but the individuals who benefited most from this policy change were lower income individuals.”
What the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Produced
The current consensus nearly four decades later is that “approximately 30 people died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the disaster, respectively, with 60 in total in the decades since, inclusive of later radiation induced cancer.”
Source: James Pethokoukis
Saturday Links
- Manhattan Institute: Let private insurers negotiate drug prices instead of the government.
- Bipartisan PBM reform: “The bill would bar PBMs from steering, force sharing of nearly all rebates on prescriptions with health plans, allow patients to get their drugs from any in-network pharmacy, prevent overcharging patients above the reimbursement rate to the pharmacy, prohibit “spread pricing” where PBMs pocket the difference between what they tell the health plan a drug costs and what they reimburse the pharmacy, and much more.”
- When should the public be alerted to possible side effects from vaccines?
- Five of the 10 happiest countries are Nordic countries.
- UnitedHealth Group now employs or is affiliated with 10% of all physicians in the U.S. (STAT)
- Bird Flu: Right now, everyone getting sick works with animals; but given more time to circulate, the virus may get better at spreading human-to-human, which could result in a global wave of H5N1 infections.