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.
Category: Health Insurance
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.
Kidney Failure
Right now, more than one hundred thousand Americans are on the organ transplant list. Last year, 5,600 people on that list died waiting for a kidney, liver, heart, or another life-saving body part.
Source: Matthew Yglesias
Missing: A failure to propose a market for kidneys.
Saturday Links
- AEI endorses health system price controls. WHAT?
- Multiple agencies “misrepresented and deceived” lawmakers over experiments to swap genes between “more lethal” and “more transmissible” lineages of monkeypox.
- Money doesn’t buy happiness, but happy people are more successful.
- Why some people don’t get covid – even when exposed to it.
- Does spirituality affect health? (Speculative)
- Lawfare explained.