Category: Health Economics & Costs
WSJ: The Shortage of Hospital Beds is Turning into a Crisis
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, a cardiologist argues that America has a shortage of hospital beds and it’s turning into a crisis. Purportedly, the United States has only three (3) hospital beds per 1,000 population. The European Union has five (5), while Japan was 13. That sounds like a huge disparity but direct comparisons of hospital beds per capita does not tell us much.
Monday Links
- 2017 Trump tax cuts: workers in the bottom half of incomes saw a 9.3 percent reduction in their tax burden, compared to 3 percent for the top 10 percent of earners.
- Was AI used to write the MAHA report?
- Bill Buckley never had a positive vision of what a conservative government would look like.
- House reconciliation bill would give 20 million more Americans access to Health Savings Accounts. (WSJ)
Saturday Links
- When patients have access to their own electronic medical records, they have questions.
- In 2024, Americans didn’t spend a greater percent of their income on health care than they did in 2009.
- RFK Jr cancels the avian flu vaccine.
- RFK Jr. slams medical journals as “vessels for pharmaceutical propaganda.”
- Federal investments in children as a share of the economy are set to decline by 20 percent compared with spending before the pandemic.