- CBO: Drug importation and a slew of other oft-debated drug pricing policies would have little to no effect on cutting prices.
- Henderson on Stiglitz.
- Charles Sauer: CDC’s advisory committee to recommend lowering the age for the pneumonia vaccination to 50.
- Federal funds now directly support the purchase of 79 percent of Obamacare plans, while the majority of enrollees receive plans entirely paid for by federal taxpayers.
- Virtual physical therapy, once a niche service, has gone mainstream.
Category: Telemedicine
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.
Monday Links
- What do Democrats have against marriage?
- California Blocks Life-Sustaining Telehealth Treatment.
- Raj Chetty, et. al.: For children in the U.S. born between 1978 and 1992, income class gaps grew and race gaps shrank, and similarly for non-monetary outcomes such as educational attainment, standardized test scores, and mortality rates.
- “Every attorney general fights for state power and police prerogatives. It’s part of the job. But over and over again, [Kamala] Harris went beyond the call of duty, fighting for harsher sentences, larger bail requirements, longer prison terms, more prosecution of petty crimes, greater criminal justice involvement in low-income and minority communities, less due process for people in the system, less transparency, and less accountability for bad cops.”
- “The cost of wearing a mask for two weeks, for me personally, is higher than the benefit of a 3% reduction in the risk of getting a cold.”
- Expanding scope of practice authority for dental hygienists: “Overall the effects were modest but the individuals who benefited most from this policy change were lower income individuals.”