Saturday Links – Page 33 – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Saturday Links

Posted on August 19, 2023August 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Reprint of a Uwe Reinhart classic: how Republican administrations gave us health care price controls and Keynesian economics fiscal policy.
OxyContin and the Sacklers return to TV in a Netflix series fact checked by Slate.
Blue Shield of California tears up the prescription drug playbook and partners with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. (WSJ)
Did you know the US government is stockpiling cheese ….. and raisins?
What happens to the roughly 20 million people slated to lose Medicaid coverage? The vast majority have other insurance and apparently didn’t need to be on Medicaid in the first place. (WSJ)
COVID experts calling for masks again — even at home!

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Saturday Links

Posted on July 29, 2023July 28, 2023 by John C. Goodman

The Biden White House pressured Facebook and Instagram to censor Covid facts, including its origin.
Now we know: Scientists who signed a paper claiming a natural origin for Covid turn out not to have believed it themselves. (WSJ)
The real DeSantis record: In 2020 Florida had the tenth lowest age-adjusted Covid death rate in the country, nearly 20% lower than California’s. (WSJ)
When did people stop being drunk all the time? From the Middle Ages to the pre-industrial era, the average person consumed about a liter of beer a day, around four times as much as consumption in modern beer-drinking countries. HT: Tyler
DEI training doesn’t work: 30 years of data from more than 800 U.S. companies show that mandatory diversity training programs have practically no effect on employee attitudes — and may even backfire.
An estimated 795 000 Americans become permanently disabled or die annually because dangerous diseases are misdiagnosed. Just 15 diseases account for about half of all serious harms. HT: Arnold Kling

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Saturday Links

Posted on July 22, 2023July 22, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Gaming the patent system: drug companies have 74 patents apiece on America’s ten best-selling drugs—receiving over half of them after FDA approval.
More than 3.1 million patients in 48 states have completed a consultation with an AI-powered chatbot.
Federal employees are still not back to work. 17 of the 24 federal agencies in GAO’s review had an average occupancy of 25 percent or less.
As of mid-2020, collections agencies held $140 billion in unpaid medical bills. That’s more than all other collections agency consumer debt combined.
80% of children with cancer survive at least five years in the wealthiest countries v. 30% in the rest of the world, according to WHO. (NYT)

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Saturday Links

Posted on July 15, 2023July 14, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Bernie Sanders has a new Medicare for All bill.
Immortality may not be a blessing.
Merritt Hawkins: The average wait time for new-patient to see a doctor is 26 days.
CMS Proposal: Telehealth to Continue Unfettered Thru 2024. (InsideHealthPolicy)
Social Security is already very progressive: An individual in the bottom fifth of lifetime earners receives a benefit equal to about 80% of their inflation-adjusted pre-retirement earnings. A middle quintile earner receives about 50%, while the top fifth receives 32%.
Did Obamcare reduce the Disability Rolls? No.
David Henderson: the reparations debate has everything backwards.
Words of wisdom from Scott Sumner: The Fed doesn’t battle inflation, it creates inflation… The inflation we’ve experienced over the past few years is almost entirely created by a highly expansionary monetary policy, which drove up nominal GDP.

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