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Category: Thursday Links

Thursday Links

Posted on February 2, 2023February 2, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Video: A Canadian describes what socialized medicine is like in Canada. Get ready to hit your pause button to appreciate the examples.
  • If you used GoodRx to find bargains on your medications, it sent your sensitive health data to tech companies like Meta and Google to use for advertising, according to the FTC.
  • Researchers from Johns Hopkins found that 54 percent of people believe landlords should be allowed to deny housing to people with drug addiction and 64 percent believe employers should be allowed to deny them employment.  But if addiction is defined as a “disability,” none of this would be legal.
  • What a Democrat aligned advocacy group wants from Congress on health care: Continue Obamacare subsidies for the rich; extend Medicare drug price controls to everyone else; hearing, dental and eye care benefits for Medicare enrollees – regardless of income and despite the fact that those benefits are available for free from Medicare Advantage plans.
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Thursday Links

Posted on January 19, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Half of all Medicare beneficiaries are now in Medicare Advantage plans.
  • Gallup: 38% say they or a family member put off medical care because of costs – the highest number in 22 years.
  • Cato: Black civil servants earned approximately 3.4 – 6.9 percentage points less because of the segregationist policies of  Woodrow Wilson – the 20th century’s most prominent “progressive.”
  • Mark Cuban’s online Cost Plus Drug Co. as 2 million customers. Cuban says the pharmacy could have saved his Dallas Mavericks basketball team $146,000. So why didn’t they?
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Thursday Links

Posted on January 5, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Funeral director sells  body parts from more than 500 victims without family consent.
  • Literature review: increased cost-sharing for drugs is associated with worse adherence, persistence, or discontinuation. Other effects are mixed.
  • What happened to Southwest Airlines in a week, happens in health care all the time – especially at the height of the pandemic. (Exaggerating, of course)
  • AMA study: Distrust of government is hazardous to your health.
  • Scott Atlas: How universities suppressed scientific opinion during the pandemic.
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Thursday Links

Posted on December 29, 2022December 28, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Nonprofit hospitals move from poor neighborhoods and locate in rich ones.
  • Should babies be allowed to fly in first class?
  • Greg Mankiw: Biden has added $4.8 T to the federal deficit.
  • Henderson: Lessons from Covid.
  • Why drug patents are good.
  • Phil Gramm defends Ebeneezer Scrooge.
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