- How Medicare is lowering the quality of health care.
- Another unfunded liability: public sector pensions.
- How Kamala Harris’s proposed housing subsidies would affect the housing market.
- Cost of the tax subsidy for employer provided heath insurance: $300 billion in 2023 and $5.6 trillion over the next decade. 88 percent of the benefit goes to households with above median incomes.
- CBO on the IRA bill: it is possible that the entirety of the law’s projected deficit reduction will never occur.
- The Green revolution isn’t happening: Despite a $1 trillion taxpayer “investment” in renewable energy, we still meet 80% of our energy needs from old-fashioned fossil fuels.
- The Code of Federal Regulations contains 1,089,462 restrictions (at the end of 2022), measured by the frequency of the keywords “shall,” “must,” “may not,” “required,” and “prohibited,” more than double the number at the end of 1970.
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- Dr. Marty Makary: The best way to lower drug costs in the United States are to stop taking drugs we don’t need.
- The Longshoreman’s union negotiator makes nearly $900,000 dollars a year and owned a 76-foot yacht, and the modal longshoreman makes north of $150,000 a year. HT: Maxwell Tabarrok.
- After ten years, Bob Graboyes thoughts on health care system are highly relevant today.
- Who has it easier in the USA today? While 68% of Democrats believe men have the advantage, only 32% of Republicans agree.
- What quality ratings look like in the Medicare Advantage program. There are no quality measurements for traditional Medicare.
- What happens when private equity takes over the emergency room. (a negative opinion)
- Why telemedicine needs to cross state lines.
- Stem cell research was used to cure Type One diabetes.
Saturday Links
- Out of more than 50 alternative payment models (APM) that CMS has implemented only six have shown statistically significant cost savings.
- Chronic diseases cause 75% of all global deaths.
- A liberal admits Trump was right about vaping.
- The pros and cons of noncompete clauses for physicians.
- Why decriminalization can lead to lower drug use.
- How deregulation is needed to allow US medical innovation to go forward.
Saturday Links
- The pitfalls of state health care reform. (Dated but still relevant.)
- A 65-year-old couple with average life expectancy and average household income (about $90,000 in 2023) retiring in 2025 will require $1.34 million to finance their Social Security and Medicare benefits, even though they paid only $720,000.
- Scott Sumner: “Almost every time I see an expert interviewed on the macroeconomy, they suggest that a substantial portion of the inflation over the past 5 years has been supply side. That’s wrong; none of it has been supply side. I’d go even further; essentially none of the inflation over the past 50 years has been supply side.”
- As if you didn’t already know, rent control doesn’t work.
- Nearly one in ten doctors in the United States are employed by United Health.
- The difference in brain structure between conservatives and liberal is less than previously thought.
- Why is it so difficult to get a live human on the phone to make an appointment with a real doctor?