- Gingrich: Goodman Institute is right on eliminating waste.
- Why we had a baby boom.
- Betsy DeVos: “Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent well more than $1 trillion to schools with the express purpose of closing the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as they have ever been, and by many measures, even wider.”
- Forever chemicals: “No one has figured out how to destroy the compounds, whose fluorine-carbon bond is the single most stable in organic chemistry, at scale.”
- Why is the CDC sitting on three bird flu studies?
- A Medicaid block grant would save $670 billion over 10 years.
Category: Health Insurance
Friday Links
- There is a long history of presidents not spending all of the money Congress has authorized.
- Traditional Medicare enrollees receive more high-risk medications than Medicare Advantage enrollees.
- Steuerle: to find waste in government, ask the employees.
- Controversial Super Bowl ad that attacks other drug companies for their weight loss drugs.
- Cato: is public health a danger to our health?
Wednesday Links
- Latest evidence: the Covid vaccine works.
- Trump EO: Each new regulation (rule) must be offset by removing 10 other rules.
- There are a lot of authoritarians on the left.
- 30% of independent pharmacists will not carry Medicare’s price-negotiated drugs.
- ADHD is linked with a lifespan that’s nearly seven years shorter for men, and about nine years shorter for women.
Why is Price Gouging Allowed in Health Care?
What should be done about price gouging? What constitutes price gouging? There is no official definition, but we all know it when we see it. I have often said that during my lifetime medicine has turned into a gold rush. By that I mean some medical providers test the limits of how much they can charge with little regard for ethics or fairness.