Tuesday Links

Posted on by John C. Goodman

Health insurance companies supporting politicians who hate health insurance companies.

Turns out, the US probably doesn’t have worse maternal mortality rates than other developed countries.

How Medicaid drug pricing works – with and without Trump.

AI’s favorite animal: the octopus.

Dershowitz: “Canada is now our enemy.”

Before 1962, developing a drug took about two years. Now it takes 12 to 14 years. Since 1975 real development costs have risen about 7.5% a year, roughly doubling every decade. Today, we estimate that bringing one successful drug to market costs about $9 billion on average. (This includes the cost of failed drugs and the time value of money.)

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