- Pharma: Medicare drug price negotiation could slow the search for a cure for cancer.
- Economic freedom is positively correlated with civic virtue.
- Countries with the highest economic growth rates have the lowest birth rates.
- Epidemiologists now estimate that 40 percent of cancers, and a similar share of cancer deaths, can be attributed to risk factors that people can control.
- Why we don’t actually need USAID.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
The Atlantic: Legal Weed Not Living Up to its Promises
Nearly half of states have legalized marijuana use in one form or another. Colorado and Washington State were the first to legalize cannabis more than a dozen years ago. In the years since, 22 other states followed suit. There are a variety of reasons.
Wednesday Links
- Latest evidence: the Covid vaccine works.
- Trump EO: Each new regulation (rule) must be offset by removing 10 other rules.
- There are a lot of authoritarians on the left.
- 30% of independent pharmacists will not carry Medicare’s price-negotiated drugs.
- ADHD is linked with a lifespan that’s nearly seven years shorter for men, and about nine years shorter for women.
Why is Price Gouging Allowed in Health Care?
What should be done about price gouging? What constitutes price gouging? There is no official definition, but we all know it when we see it. I have often said that during my lifetime medicine has turned into a gold rush. By that I mean some medical providers test the limits of how much they can charge with little regard for ethics or fairness.