- W & M: How the Trump tax cuts were good for the economy and why allowing some provisions to expire would be bad.
- How much would you pay per year to combat global warming? R: $134 D: $633 All: $371
- Percent who would pay nothing: R: 53% D: 17% All: 35%
- At a New York City fast food restaurant, the cashier is 8,000 miles away in the Philippines and costs $1 an hour.
- Over the last 13 months, more than 20 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid. So, what happened to the uninsured rate? It hasn’t budged. Explanations.
- Milei is succeeding in Argentina.
Category: Health Reform
WSJ: Hospitals Increasingly Demand Patients’ Share of the Bill before Surgery
The Wall Street Journal reports that hospitals increasingly demand patients pay up front before getting surgeries. Hospitals are purportedly tired of having to chase after patients to collect what they owe.
Friday Links
- Missing from the progressives’ 2024 agenda: Medicare for All.
- Medicaid waivers have consistent outcomes: more Medicaid spending.
- The very top performers in virtually any field are extremely smart.
- The average time to see a physician in 2o20 was 26 days—an 8 percent increase from 2017 and a 24 percent spike since 2004.
- The CDC’s definition of misinformation: anything that contradicts the views of the CDC.
Why are So Many Americans Self-Medicating with Herbal Remedies and Dietary Supplements?
Hardly a day goes by but what I hear about health food elixirs, herbal remedies or new health biohacks that are supposed to improve your life. These often claim to make you age more slowly, reduce your stress levels or provide some nebulous health benefit like detoxing. These dietary supplements are often in the form of capsules or liquids you ingest but sometimes intended to mixed into smoothies. Plants have a lot of medicinal effects. Many medicines were originally derived and synthesized from plants. In antiquity people turned to plants because medicinal plants were their only options.