Hospitals are the worst place to receive care if there are any other choices. Hospital prices are far higher than the same services available elsewhere. I often tell the story of my wife unknowingly checking on getting a CT scan at a hospital outpatient facility. She discovered that her share of the cost was going to be $2,700. That wasn’t the price; that was just her share of the cost. The price was higher. I quickly found a free-standing radiology clinic willing to do the same procedure for $403. Why was it lower? It wasn’t that one CT scanner was better than the other. It was that one was at the hospital where prices are always higher.
Category: Health Reform
Saturday Links
- In defense of drug decriminalization: what Oregon and Portugal got wrong: Jacob Sullum and Jeffrey Singer.
- Biden’s attack on Short-term insurance is not only bad policy, it’s cruel.
- Cato: Extend OTC status to all birth control pills, not just one.
- Why it ls hard to know whether you own your own cells.
- If you give people a free 10k, what will they do with it? HT: Tyler
- Dylan Scott asks: Why doesn’t health insurance pay for more mental heath therapy?
- I answered this question more than two decades ago: here, here and here.
More States Pass Medical Conscience Bills
A new law in Montana, dubbed Medical Conscience Objection Laws, will provide sweeping protections for medical professionals who do not want to participate in or provide some types of medical care due to conscience.
Thursday Links
- Right-of-center opponents of dropping the A bomb on Japan include Herbert Hoover and Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
- After Portland decriminalized small amounts of illicit drugs, it got …. more drug use! (NYT)
- The judge, on the Biden administration’s censorship of Covid info: It was “arguably the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” (WSJ)
- What Trump did on price transparency and why it matters.
- From Australia to Zimbabwe, governments are raiding each other’s health systems in a worldwide hunt for medical workers. (WSJ)