Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Monday Links
- Why “coffee is good for you” studies are probably wrong.
- Approximately 89% of orbiting satellites now belong to commercial firms as opposed to government or military groups. (All about Elon.)
- Do people in Blue Zones really live longer? (NYT)
- David Henderson on the Oregon Medicaid experiment:
- Those who were not enrolled got 80% of the medical care as those who were.
- The unenrolled paid only 20 cents on the dollar for the care they received.
- There was no difference in the physical health of the enrolled and the unenrolled.
- Henderson: additional evidence that access to medical care does not explain health disparities:
- Study: annual death rates in Nevada were 40 to 50% higher than in Utah. Yet The differences could not be attributed to medical care, income, schooling, or climate
- Study: Medicare spending per person in McAllen, Texas was twice the level of El Paso. Yet McAllen residents were not enjoying better health.
Saturday Links
- In most developed countries, out-of-pocket-spending on health care as a percent of household income is higher than it is in the US.
- Dr. Marty Makary on four health myths.
- Study: Expanding access to weight loss drugs could prevent more than 40,000 deaths a year in the United States.
- Researchers refuse to publish their own study showing that puberty blockers did not improve the mental health of children.
- A secret shopper survey called the first 100 doctors on Anthem’s directory. Only seven out of the 100 actually accepted the insurance and would take new patients.
- How often Nobel Prize winning economists have been wrong about national politics.
- Kotlikoff: Ten Medicare mistakes to avoid.
Friday Links
- Tomas Philipson: Why price controls on Ozempic could make overall health care costs go up.
- No, millionaires and billionaire’s do not pay lower tax rates than school teachers.
- 35% of bachelor’s degrees from liberal arts colleges result in a negative ROI.
- “In dual-income households within the top socioeconomic quintile, only 29 percent of wives earn more than their husbands, whereas in the bottom quintile, an incredible 69 percent of wives out-earn their husbands.” HT: Arnold Kling
- Ways in which FDR was anti-Black workers.