- Hooper: Why drug efficacy should be determined by doctors and patients, not FDA testing.
- Scott Gottlieb: How safe are vaccines?
- Most foreigners actually pay more than we do overall because they have access to fewer generics and they pay more for generics than we do.
- A typical Canadian family of four will pay an estimated $19,060 for public health-care insurance.
- Work requirements for Arkansas Medicaid enrollees: no increase in preventable hospital admissions or emergency room visits.
- How Obamacare discriminates against the sick.
- M Cannon: in defense of health insurance companies.
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- Evidence for and against the “just give people cash” version of the welfare state. (Item 1)
- Between 1970 and 2020, the number of U.S. physicians doubled, the number of non-clinical healthcare workers –bureaucrats or administrators of all types – increased by more than 4,400 percent! That’s 44 non-care givers for every one care giver.
- In 2005, the average cost of care for the MMI’s household was $12,214. Twenty years later, it had reached $35,119 —a 188 percent increase.
- Traditional Medicare is about to try out aggressive preauthorization.
- The case for drinking alcohol.
- High tariff countries are generally very poor.
Saturday Links – 30 August 2025
- Everything you want to know about the hundreds of studies on whether alcohol is good or bad for you.
- Did GPT-4o help a kid commit suicide?
- The $42.5 billion BEAD program was designed to deploy high-speed internet to individual locations. Costs run as high as $40,000 to connect a location.
- The way you breathe is unique to you, like a fingerprint.
- How Medicaid pays for health care for illegal immigrants:
Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally funded Medicaid, but hospitals must still provide emergency care to anyone in need. Through Emergency Medicaid, states receive federal reimbursement for services provided to individuals who meet Medicaid’s income and residency requirements but lack an eligible immigration status. Federal reimbursement can be as high as 90%. InsideHealthPolicy (gated)
Saturday Links
- Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare enrollees get about the same amount of dental, hearing, and vision care. MA patients pay less out of pocket.
- in 2019, mean monthly out-of-pocket costs were estimated to be $440 in Medicare Advantage compared with $579 in fee-for-service Medicare. (That’s $1,668 a year difference.)
- Ippolito on the prospects for Medicare Advantage reform.
- Social cost of measles outbreak in Texas: $35.4 million. Social cost of vaccines that could have prevented measles: $40,000–$115,000.
- Real, inflation-adjusted, federal domestic spending per person is now more than 2.5 times what it was in 1980, while total government spending and tax subsidies at all levels exceed $90,000 per household.
- Why hospital price transparency regulations aren’t working: “Many hospitals can easily afford the small fine and keep breaking the law.”