I’ve said it a million times: The U.S. health care system is largely predicated on gouging employee health plans. Medicare and Medicaid cover the overhead while the real money is from privately insured patients who are charged several times the fees that Medicare pays for the same service.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Wednesday Links
- The US has cut carbon emission more than any other country.
- Colorado wants to be the first state to import drugs from Canada.
- Waste, fraud, and abuse in federal health care programs: over $130 billion per year in improper payments.
- Biden wastes billions on Covid boosters no one wants.
- Federal vaccine mandates cover more than 10 million Medicare and Medicaid employees, 84 million workers (through OSHA), federal contractors (one-fifth of the national workforce), 3.5 million federal employees, and Head Start employees, contractors, and volunteers.
Wednesday Links
- Less developed countries discover how to provide economical mental health care: use non-specialists.
- How reliable are patient online reviews at detecting physician and hospital quality? Not good.
- Is Obamacare’s free preventive medicine mandate unconstitutional? (WSJ)
- 94% of US residents have gotten Covid.
Pharmacist: That Prescription Will Cost You $3.5 Million!
A new record has been set for the highest price medication. The newly approved hemophilia drug Hemgenix.