- What happens when whistleblowers reveal what appears to be medical malpractice associated with “gender affirming care”? The government goes after the whistleblowers.
- More on AI and rural health. (STAT)
- New NBER paper: “Our calculations indicate that currently proposed U.S. policies to reduce pharmaceutical prices, though particularly beneficial for low-income and elderly populations, could dramatically reduce firms’ investment in highly welfare-improving R&D.”
- Could quitting your job actually help the economy?
- Steuerle: “Never in U.S. history has there been so much growth in debt scheduled in current law from past legislation.”
- BMJ publication bias during covid: very one-sided and on the wrong side of history.
- Feds seek delay in releasing covid safety data.
- Do good-looking people live longer?
Category: Health Insurance
WSJ: PBMs Charge More for Mail-Order Drugs Than Prices at Local Pharmacies
Some seniors order drugs from abroad to save money. A few states are even considering mail-ordering cheaper drugs from Canada for state employees. Every employer cannot order drugs from Canada, however. There are just not enough drugs in Canada to serve their own population along with 100 million Americans with employee health coverage.
Thursday Links
- Sex matters. (Although some people are claiming it doesn’t)
- Julian Assange gets a plea deal: no jail time from misuse of classified documents. Hmm. Isn’t this the same crime for which a special prosecutor is trying to send Trump to prison?
- The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is wrong: Biden not Trump, added more to our pubic debt than any other president in history.
- “Black youth were 10 times more likely to die by homicide than white youth, and Native American youth were twice as likely to die by suicide than white youth.” Recommended.
- Is it hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk? No.
- The uninsured share of the population will rise from 7.7% to 8.9 percent in 2034.
Wednesday Links
- Study: Bans on flavored tobacco products don’t work.
- Are women taking over our health care system?
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There are 4.2 million nurses, over 1 million doctors, and over 1/2 million PAs and NPs in the US…. Women hold … 90% of all nursing positions, 66% of PAs, and 55% of all current Medical School slots.
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- NBER study: As hospital prices went up 1%, the percentage of people who ended up out of a job rose by 0.4% and payments for tax-funded unemployment insurance increased 2.5%.
- The total expense [of developing a new drug] is estimated at $1 billion on average. It takes 10 to 15 years. And nearly 90 percent of the candidate drugs that enter human clinical trials fail.
- Colorado wants to import drugs from Canada. Pharma is opposed.