- CBO: Federal debt held by the public to reach 180% of GDP by mid century.
- One solution to the debt problem: faster economic growth.
- Dr. Steven Quay on the origins of covid: Testimony. Book: “This book is a shocking account of the extreme experiments, of the cover-ups and of the collusions that led to the outbreak of the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish influenza and broadens the censure to include the American and British scientists who thwarted a proper investigation of the origin of COVID-19.”
- Standing between rural residents and health care: certificate of need laws.
- Families matter: Odds of going to college and graduating from college vs. going to prison, based on the presence or absence of parents.
- South Africa’s public health care system has run out of the human insulin pens for diabetics, as the pharmaceutical industry shifts production priorities to weight-loss drugs.
- Nearly three years after the creation of a $42.5 billion federal program to bring high speed internet access to rural residents, not a single home or business has been connected and no project will break ground until sometime next year.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
The Public ‘Healthification’ of Income and Everything Else
In recent years left-of-center public health advocates have tried to expand the scope of what is considered public health care.
Why Medicare Advantage Improves Care and Reduces Costs
Fee-for-service Medicare is expensive and too often is poorly delivered. The fee-based payment model pays more for bad and failed care because when the caregivers are paid only by the piece, they have more pieces to deliver when care fails. They deliver and bill for even more pieces when the health of a member deteriorates.
Thursday Links
- Does the Constitution guarantee a right to take drugs?
- How did this become a crime? McKinsey allegedly tried to help Purdue tailor its sales efforts to doctors who already prescribed oral opioid drugs.
- Yglesias: Americans have been gaining weight for as far back as we have records.
- More from Yglesias: The human animal … evolved to overeat a modest amount whenever food is widely available in order to hedge against starvation risk in the future.
- New Alzheimer’s treatments are bogged down by Medicare’s bureaucracy. (Chicago Tribune)