People who need expensive drugs are being overcharged so that drug insurance premiums can be artificially lowered for everyone – including all the people who don’t need those drugs. In this way, the sick are subsidizing the healthy.
Category: Health Insurance
Monday Links
- The US Olympic Team will get air conditioning in Paris, undermining the French goal of cutting carbon emissions.
- It pays to work for government.
- If you want to hunt a gray whale you have to be a member of the Makah tribe.
- 30% of our food supply goes uneaten and is thrown away.
- Two disabled adults stand to lose $5652 a year if they marry. (NYT)
Hospital Owned Urgent Care Centers are Another Surprise Medical Bill Scam
Surprise, surprise, surprise as Gomer Pyle was fond of saying. There’s yet another surprise medical bill scam that most patients probably do not know about. It’s hospital-affiliated urgent care centers that are billed as hospital outpatient departments.
More on What Motivates Fauci
Both during AIDS and during Covid-19, Fauci and company fought the use of inexpensive, repurposed drugs to help people’s immune systems fight off the threats. [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] argues that they were motivated by a desire to bring pharmaceutical products to market—both antivirals and vaccines—without facing cheap competition, as a portion of Big Pharma’s profits would make their way into the public health officials’ pockets.
Quoted in a brief book review by David Henderson, who doesn’t necessarily agree with everything Kennedy has to say on the subject.