- What does the Republican Party Platform have to say about heath care? Not much.
- MSM coverage of Kamala Harris since she replaced Joe Biden on the ticket was 84 percent positive; while Donald Trump’s coverage was 89% negative.
- PhARMA: Over half of every dollar spent on medicines goes to middlemen and others.
- International study: after patent expiration (and the arability of generics), the fastest price declines were observed in the US — 32% in year 1 and 82% within 8 years.
- Why have so many pancreata (the plural of pancreas) gone missing?
Category: Health Insurance
Wednesday Links
- 16 ways the Biden/Harris administration has made housing more expensive.
- Casy Mulligan: Biden Harris regulations will cost the average family $50,000 over a lifetime.
- Price negotiation does not save money when you are paying for drugs that don’t work.
- Scientists are getting better at pinpointing our biological age. Can they reverse the process?
Tuesday Links
- The anesthetic drug Matthew Perry overdosed on can be received through the mail. (NYT)
- Free food: 19 million children ate a free lunch last year and 11.1 million ate a free breakfast. (NYT)
- Orszag: DOJ is challenging vertical integration of health care companies, but that is how Obamacare is supposed to work.
- Goodman and Moore: Trump is onto something on Social Security taxation: here is how to fix it.
Should Medicare Ration Drugs?
Should Medicare (and other health plans for that matter) be required to cover every drug, every hyper expensive medical procedure and every therapy that holds a modicum of benefits? Asked another way, should some types of rationing be allowed?