- David Friedman on tariffs. Excellent
- AHA opposes Biden’s tariffs on medical equipment, which create $650 million in increased costs to the U.S. medical industry.
- Arizona police arrested a woman for serving home-cooked meals to the hungry and the needy.
- Rather than education, welfare, or nutrition programs, three tax provisions are now the largest category of federal support for children – and over the years they have been on a perpetual rollercoaster.
- More on using foreign trained doctors to solve our physician shortage problem.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Simple Blood Test May Predict Disease: Will that Make People Healthier?
New research has identified proteins, found in a single drop of blood, that may hold clues to our health and the diseases we’re likely to develop years into the future.
Medicare and Wegovy
A report by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) estimates that treating even half of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with obesity would cost $166 billion per year, nearly the cost of total spending on all prescription drugs in 2022 ($175 billion).
Source: STAT (gated)
Tuesday Links
- Kamal Harris’ health plan: Medicare for all, with private insurers participating – like Medicare Advantage.
- Surprise: low voter turnout benefits Democrats, not Republicans. “The likeliest voters are Democrats, while the ones who are less likely to vote are Republicans.”
- Message to the White House: inflation isn’t caused by greed. (WaPo)
- Estimating the cost of our bureaucratic health insurance payment system.
- What happens when you give people $1,000 a month with no string attached? They spend it. They also work less. “For every $1 of free money received, participants’ earnings dropped by at least 12 cents and total household income fell by at least 21 cents.”