- Generic drug prices are falling. That’s good news for consumers unless the drug is not available.
- Study: China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme has saved lives, increased life expectancy.
- Poland experienced five decades of a planned economy, followed by three decades of market orientation. The market is better.
- Pre Obamacare, Did Health Insurance Companies Refuse to Insure a Lot of People?
- Why do so many private schools look just like public schools?
Category: Health Insurance
Do Ambulances Really Need Flashing Lights and Blaring Sirens?
The other day I had to pull off to the side of the road to yield right-of-way to an ambulance. It was stressful as I didn’t see or hear the ambulance until I pulled out in front of it. A friend’s mother accidentally turned out in front of an ambulance and was subsequently pulled over by the police for the infraction. Often, you’re in traffic and cannot get out of the way while an ambulance is behind you blasting its horn as you try to move.
Tuesday Links
- Sen. Chuck Schumer: Logan Paul’s energy drink has the caffeine equivalent of six cans of Coke.
- Does pollution really reduce birth weight?
- The difference in life-expectancies between Black and White Americans has decreased from 7.0 years to 3.6 years between 1980 and 2018. Between 35% and 73% of this convergence is attributable to biopharmaceutical innovation.
Obamacare Doesn’t Want Competition from Better Insurance Plans
HHS, the Treasury Department and the Department of Labor issued proposed rules on Friday that clamp down on short-term limited duration health plans, which offer cheap but sparse coverage that Democrats deride as “junk insurance.” The rule, which is meant to protect consumers and bolster the Obamacare exchange, would overturn a 2018 Trump-era regulation and satisfies liberal lawmakers and patient groups who have demanded the administration act since its first days in the White House.