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: News and Events
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.
Friday Links
- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: “The best place to hide and launder ill-gotten gains is actually the United States.”
- The rise and fall of cities: Detroit has one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, experienced a 61% population decrease from 1950-2010, and between 2005-2015, one in three Detroit properties has been foreclosed on.
- The left digit bias in medicine. Recommended
- Tyler Cowen on the cost of climate change: Imagine someone telling you, “the world won’t attain the year 2100 standard of living until 2102.”
- Overboard incidents — falling, jumping or being thrown — are the leading cause of death on cruise ships.
- Fauci’s replacement, Jeanne Marrazzo, “has almost an unblemished record of being wrong on every issue related to COVID.”