- How families are getting health care without health insurance.
- What determines the price of health care?
- The US is one of the most dangerous places in the developed world for walking down the street.
- Two thirds of hospital spending is on items other than patient care.
- More than half of hospitals make money on Medicare.
- One-third make money on Medicaid.
Category: Single-Payer/Medicare-for-All
Friday Links – 24 April 2026
- Henderson: what driving on roads and highways can tell us about the proper role for government.
- Did Trump inadvertently create the optimal global carbon tax?
- Dual classification: hospitals can maximize their Medicare revenue by becoming “rural” for some purposes and “urban” for others.
- The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act would give employers transparency into where their premium dollars are going.
- What difference does price transparency in health care make?
Saturday Links – 4 April 2026
- How China went capitalist.
- “How is it that the working population is increasingly burdened by health insurance premiums and poorer coverage, while the senior population is shielded from cost increases even as Medicare coverage has improved?”
- New Penn-Wharton study shows per-capita federal spending on each age group:
- Seniors: $43,700
- Children and young adults: $4,300.
- There are three types of primary care. The most wasteful: prevention and screening services.
- Californians pay billions of dollars a year in fuel taxes and vehicle fees to maintain the second worst highway system in the nation.
Medicare Hospice Fraud is Rampant, in California and Elsewhere
House Republicans are going after rampant hospice fraud in the Medicare program in California. The only problem is that they are targeting a deep blue state rather than fraud in all 50 states. Hospice fraud and abuse is widespread in the Medicare program.