- Are physician scientists— people who mostly run labs and see patients 1/2 a day a week in a clinic and 2-4 weeks a year in the hospital — as good as full-time doctors? No
- Bob Graboyes interviews Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty: Why his Indian hospitals perform a heart bypass operation for $2,000 as opposed to the US hospital cost of at least $100,000 – with equally good outcomes.
- All the policy positions that Anthony Fauci got wrong.
- One NIH investigation estimated the costs of alcohol use amounted to 2.6% of US GDP.
- Scott Sumner always has the best views on the macro economy.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
As Hospital Systems Grow Larger, So Does Your Bill
Warning: This post is déjà vu all over again. Hospitals are growing. There used to be hospitals in every town. Now there are two or three major health care systems that dominate every region. As hospitals grow bigger in size so do their prices. The Wall Street Journal summed this phenomenon saying, “As Hospitals Grow, So Does Your Bill.”
Saturday Links
- Fauci testimony: He engaged in misleading wordplay and evasive blame-shifting.
- The Trump tax cuts (2017 TCJA) were actually very progressive.
- There have been more than 3 million excess deaths across the US, Europe and Australia since 2020. Could Covid vaccines be a guilty party?
- Why the IRA bill is especially bad for future cancer patients.
- David Boaz, RIP
- Kaiser has produced health policy 101.
- As of April, 5.3% of U.S. adults — 13.7 million people — had long Covid.
Study: Alzheimer’s Takes a Financial Toll Years Before Diagnosis
About 6.7 million senior Americans are living with Alzheimer’s dementia in the United States. This number is expected to double in the next 35 years. The cost of Medicare, hospice care and Medicaid long term care reached $345 billion in 2023, while the cost of unpaid caregiving was even higher. These costs will continue grow and tax the resources of both patients and those providing care.