- Compared to Obama and Trump, the cost of Biden’s regulatory rules is off the chart.
- How much can you trust the medical journals?
- The US leads the world in death from obesity.
- 16 countries have private Social Security accounts.
- The future of a world with drones is actually somewhat scary. (Scroll down to interesting thing number 2)
Category: Health Reform
Sunday Links
- Cato: “We estimate that the [Inflation Reduction Act] will cost more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years and between $2 trillion and $4 trillion by 2050.”
- Despite a bumpy start, hospital price transparency requirements are having an effect: a movement toward price convergence.
- How health insurers use AI to deny health care claims.
- MAGA opportunity: McKinsey estimates the global market for “consumer wellness” products at $1.8 trillion—making it roughly twice the size of the pharmaceutical industry
The New Surprise Medical Bill: Minor Services Billed as Surgical Procedures
Kaiser Family Foundation Health News (KHN) reports that doctors are increasingly coding simple services like freezing off a blemish as surgery, billed at surgical prices.
Thursday Links
- Why did virtually every country in the world respond to Covid in the same way – using tactics we now know to be wrong?
- Also, from David Friedman: it’s not clear that the costs of global warming outweigh the benefits.
- Five medical breakthroughs in 2024. HT: Tyler
- U of Chicago study: “The dominant change in the tax and transfer system over the past fifty years has been an increase in transfers to the bottom [of the income distribution].” Note: this period covers all the Republican tax bills plus welfare reform.
- Patients with lower socioeconomic status wait longer for health care.