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Category: Health Reform

Tuesday Links

Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 by John C. Goodman

These are from Heritage:           

  • Haislmaier: Since the Obamacare subsidy extension for three more years will have no effect on premiums, or on the number of people with health insurance, it will transfer $64 billion into the pockets of the insurers at taxpayer expense.
  • Moffitt: Private sector competition in the market for Medicare prescription drug coverage is working much better than anyone expected; CBO: replacing that system with price controls will result in fewer drugs, fewer cures and fewer lives saved.
  • Badger:  Letting the Obamacare subsidies expire not only would save money, there would be no loss of Americans with individual health insurance coverage.
  • Schaefer: Using the VA system as a guide, if Medicare imposes drug price controls seniors should expect less access to critical drugs and treatments than they have today.
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Thursday Links

Posted on July 28, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • In Fixing Food, Richard A. Williams, a 30-year cost-benefit analyst at the FDA, says the agency isn’t protecting the public. Book review here.
  • John Cochrane video on free market health insurance.
  • Nearly 5 million people are paying no premium at all for their Obamacare Insurance. (WSJ) But if they had the cash, almost all of them would do something else with it.
  • Next big thing in cannabis: a gentler high that offers relaxation and pain relief without the anxiety or fuzzy-headedness of regular weed.
  • In Vancouver, you can get a fentanyl high for free – courtesy of the Canadian public health system.
  • Kim Bellard at The Health Care Blog admits he has been wrong. About his belief in managed care? Or, managed competition? Or, his failure to appreciate the power of markets? Or, patient power? No. None of these. He was wrong because he hoped people would care more about health and more about patients than profits. Not exactly the mea culpa we were looking for.
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Obesity is Skyrocketing (So is the variety of snack foods)

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Devon Herrick

USA Today has just published a series of articles on obesity  in America, saying:

More than 4 in 10 Americans now fit the medical definition for having obesity, putting them at risk for serious health problems, including diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer. The pandemic increased the stakes. In its first year, nearly one-third of severe COVID-19 cases were blamed on excess weight.

USA Today… spoke with more than 50 experts – in nutrition, endocrinology, psychology, exercise physiology and neuroscience – and people who are intimately familiar with the challenges of extra pounds.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on July 27, 2022July 26, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • More on America’s unusually short life expectancy: the absolute gap is mostly overdoses, homicides, and car accidents.
  • What’s wrong with BBB lite?
  • Should uncompensated house work (including child care) count as part of GDP? Peter Thiel vs. Arnold Kling.
  • David Henderson and Casey Mulligan: Why Biden is virtually engineering a recession.
  • Jason Shafrin on Grossman’s classic human capital model of the demand for health care.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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