- Cotopaxi Drugs joins 11 Walgreens stores that have closed in the last three years due to rising crime in San Francisco. HT: CTUP
- Study: After a nuclear accident, Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors. That led to an increase in energy prices and that led to more deaths.
- Every time a drug switches from prescription to OTC, the total number of doctor visits drops.
- Does earlier detection of lung cancer lead to better survival: Here’s why we don’t know.
- David Friedman on Black Reparations and other issues. Recommended.
- Tyler Cowen: “Single parent families can be disastrous. In Colombia the current rate of that is 84 (!) percent. In Argentina, Mexico, and Chile it is more than half. For India I see estimates ranging from 4.5 percent to 7.5 percent for single parent families.”
Author: Pieter Vorster
John C. Goodman
John C. Goodman is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on health policy. The Wall Street Journal calls Dr Goodman “the father of Health Savings Accounts.” Modern Healthcare says he is one of four people who have most influenced the changes shaping our health care system.
Devon Herrick, Ph.D.
Devon Herrick, Ph.D. is a health economist and former hospital accountant. Herrick has researched and written about health reform and health economics for many years. He concentrates on issues such as direct primary care, Internet-based medicine, telemedicine, medical tourism, emerging trends in retail medicine, and pharmaceutical economics. Dr. Herrick also studies health insurance issues, including state health care regulations, federal health reform, Medicare, Medicaid, and the uninsured. Herrick worked for the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) from 1996 until 2017, becoming a senior fellow in 2003.