David Henderson: If you read or watch nothing else about Covid-19 today or this weekend, make sure you watch Margery Smelkinson’s 4-minute testimony. Charlie Hooper on Ivermectin. How student loans are like health insurance: graduate students will account for 48 percent of new federal student loans … graduates of master’s degree programs owe over $55,000 and graduates of professional programs owe…
Category: Health Reform
Saturday Links
- The US government has reinstated funding to EcoHealth Alliance, the agency that collaborated on bat research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China.
- Krguman on how Pharma avoids paying income taxes. Answer: tax people, not corporations
- Food Stamps: “We find the fastest-growing groups of the adult caseload suffer from low employment levels and poor health outcomes.”
- Top 20 hospitals and their CEOs racked up huge pandemic profits.
Congress: Why Don’t Consumers Benefit from Drug Rebates?
When you pick up a prescription at the drugstore you don’t always pay cash, you often pay an insurance copay. Occasionally if you’re picking up a generic drug it may be free with no cost sharing, although that is far less common than it once was. My wife and I use a program called GoodRx. One time I went to CVS to pick up my dog’s medication and the pharmacy tech informed me that CVS had a special program for veterinary medications. The discounted price would be $54 as I recall. I pulled out a GoodRx coupon and asked if the coupon was good. He said it was. My new price was around $15. How is that possible?
Friday Links
- Over-the-counter birth control decision is a small step in the right direction – many more steps are needed.
- At $3.5 million for a one-time dose, Hemgenix (which cures hemophilia) is now the most expensive drug in the world.
- Gender bias in academia? A lot less than you might think.
- Michael Drummond on high US drug prices: “My hope as a European is that US never gets its health system in order.”
- British babies born with DNA from three people.