- 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.
Category: Saturday Links
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?
Saturday Links
- Sales of dog strollers last year outpaced those of baby strollers for the first time in South Korea – home to the world’s lowest birthrate.(WSJ)
- How the New York Times stoked Covid alarmism.
- “Overall, benchmark premiums increased 75 percent between 2014 and 2024—more than 60 percent higher than the premium growth in employer plans during this time.”
- Does Joe Stiglitz deserve the blame for thousands of murders and poverty and misery in Venezuela?
- Taxpayers lose to fraud, fraud and more fraud.
- Means-tested social-welfare spending totaled $1.6 trillion in 2023, absorbing 72.6% of unobligated general revenue minus Social Security, Medicare and interest payments.