- In 72% of species, females lived longer than males.
- In any given year, 5% of the people spend half the heath care dollars, while half the people spend almost nothing.
- Obamacare premiums have increased nearly twice as fast as employer-based health insurance premiums since 2014.
- Falls cost $80 billion a year in health care costs. Some MA plans invest in preventing them.
- AEI: Let Social Security pay for “earned” benefits, but not “unearned” benefits.
Category: News and Events
Some Employers Find Legal Loopholes to Import Cheap Drugs
It is technically against federal law to import drugs into the United States except those authorized by the manufacturer. This is how U.S. drugmakers can charge much higher prices domestically. The ban on drug reimportation allows drug manufacturers to price discriminate, charging different prices in different markets. This only works if you can prevent arbitrage, which is preventing someone bypassing the expensive products by importing cheaper ones.
Saturday Links
- Dr. Casey Means (the would-be Surgeon General): Doctors make people sicker. (NYT)
- A single submarine can require four tons of rare earths. (NYT)
- A brief history of Obamcare.
- Cato study: Repealing certificate-of-need (CON) laws increased the number of long-term acute care hospitals (LTACs) by 69 percent and added an average of 558 certified beds per million elderly residents. Furthermore, when LTACs entered the nursing home market, they decreased the rate at which patients in skilled nursing facilities were rehospitalized by 5.9 percent, the number of patients who fell while in care by 5.3 percent, and the number of patients who were physically restrained to their beds by 13 percent.
Traffic Fatalities Near Historic Lows, but Public Health Advocates Demand More Laws
Traffic fatalities have been inching up ever since covid. About 43,230 people died in 2021 the year after the Covid Pandemic. Traffic deaths are up 20% from a decade ago. Approximately 39,345 people died in 2024 compared 32,744 in 2014.