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Category: Health Economics & Costs

Wednesday Links

Posted on December 14, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Man harassed by collection agencies over an unpaid $2.57 hospital bill.
  • Socialized medicine in Oregon:  Measure 111 amends the state constitution to establish “the obligation of the state to ensure that every resident of Oregon has access to cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable health care as a fundamental right.” (WSJ)
  • How colleges deceive students about the real cost of their enrollment.
  • Paul Ryan’s plan to save America’s finances. Social Security reform is bold. Health care reforms are Meh.
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Does Grandma Need a roommate? (Alternatives to Long Term Care)

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Devon Herrick

Nearly 70% of seniors will need long-term care at some point in their lives. There are nearly 66,000 long-term care (LTC) facilities in the United States, with a total of about 1 million licensed beds. That will not be nearly enough as the Baby Boomer generation approaches the period in their lives of declining health. The average LTC resident is a woman, accounting for two-thirds of residents. Women stay an average of 3.7 years, compared to men who stay 2.2 years, on average. The reason women outnumber men two-to-one and spend more time in nursing homes is due to women outliving their husbands.

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Tuesday Links

Posted on December 13, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Snakebites are worse than we thought: They kill between 81,000 and 138,000 people each year, and leave another 400,000 with permanent disabilities.
  • Contra PhARMA:  Profit growth at the largest pharmaceutical companies—driven by price hikes on older, branded, monopoly drugs—rarely leads to the development of innovative new medicines, according to a FREOPP study.
  • Heritage study: The federal government spent $279 billion of taxpayers’ money on improper payments in 2021 alone. That is more than $2,000 per U.S. household.
  • Does coffee drinking increase your life expectancy? Or, do we never seem to tire of bad studies?
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Cato Health

Posted on December 12, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Cops practicing medicine: Government and law enforcement increasingly surveil and influence the way doctors treat pain, psychoactive substance use, and substance use disorder.
  • Its time to free the birth control pill: Allow OTC sales.
  • Free the nurses: They can provide excellent primary care services.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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