Ever since Obamacare became law, my colleagues and I have been writing about a race to the bottom in the exchanges – where health plans try to attract the healthy and avoid the sick. The result: people with serious health problems are being denied access to the doctors and hospitals they desperately need.
Category: Health Reform
April 2022 Health Care News is now available
April 2022 Health Care News is now available:
- Congress Turns to the Think Tanks for Help
- Democrats Go After Short Term Plans
- California Punts on Single Payer Plan
- Fauci’s Secret War on Great Barrington Declaration Authors
- Insurers Ordered to Cover Sex Changes
- Vaccine Skeptics Listed as “Terrorists”
- Mark Cuban Launches Online, Low-Cost Generic Pharmacy
- Military Data on Vaccine Adverse Effects Disappears
- FDA Advisor: Agency is Ignoring Vaccine Side Effects
- Sweden’s Approach to the Virus Wins Accolades
- Johns Hopkins Study: Lockdowns Don’t Work
- Goodman: Seniors Deserve an HSA
- Blase: Subsidies Make Health Care Cost More
Why am I not surprised? Teens who abuse drugs don’t stop as adults
Once teenage drug users reach adulthood are they safely past the likelihood of future drug abuse? No, not according to research. A study followed 5,300 teens all the way to age 50.
Why Americans Spend So Much on Health Care
There are a variety of reasons, both good and bad.
The bottom line: U.S. health care is tailored to an affluent population that suffers from the afflictions of an affluent population. The solution is more individual control.
HT: Chris Pope, Manhattan Institute, writing in City Journal.