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Tremendous respect for @TomasPhilipson; lots of issues with his latest in @WSJopinion.
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First, some background.
Congress has complete control over the prices Medicare pays for drugs.
By most accounts, it sets drug prices too high. It agrees to pay drug makers whatever they charge for 6 categories of Part D drugs, encourages excessive drug prices in Part B, etc.
Congress has complete control over the prices Medicare pays for drugs.
By most accounts, it sets drug prices too high. It agrees to pay drug makers whatever they charge for 6 categories of Part D drugs, encourages excessive drug prices in Part B, etc.
The policy mechanisms that produce those prices were not efforts to achieve the optimal quantities of QUALYs or innovation or anything so noble.
They were political compromises Congress enacted to make the drug industry happy. So one should not assume current prices are optimal.
They were political compromises Congress enacted to make the drug industry happy. So one should not assume current prices are optimal.
LIVE NOW: Join Jeanne Lenzer, @VPrasadMDMPH, @DrJBhattacharya, @johanknorberg and @dr4liberty to discuss the lessons we can learn from Sweden’s approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WATCH: bit.ly/3PhGHin
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Contrary to the common wisdom at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden actually did extremely well in protecting its population. Jeanne Lenzer is now discussing the data at our @CatoHealth event: cato.org/events/pandemi…
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“The main reason why Sweden had no excess mortality for people under 75, is because they didn’t shift the burden of mortality from older people to younger people by shutting down schools & businesses.” —Jeanne Lenzer
TUNE IN: cato.org/events/pandemi… #CatoHealth
TUNE IN: cato.org/events/pandemi… #CatoHealth
#DCCircuit affirms district court, rules against private insurers seeking to crush their competitors by stripping coverage from patients with #PreexistingConditions.
cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opini… #STLDI #ACAPvTreasury #CatoHealth @CatoInstitute @TheBuckeyeInst @jrovner @StephArmour1
cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opini… #STLDI #ACAPvTreasury #CatoHealth @CatoInstitute @TheBuckeyeInst @jrovner @StephArmour1
Appellants are @safetynetplans -- i.e., #ACA-participating private insurance companies.
They complain competition from short-term, limited duration health plans--#STLDI, which Congress exempts from #ObamaCare's costly regulations--are hurting their revenues.
They complain competition from short-term, limited duration health plans--#STLDI, which Congress exempts from #ObamaCare's costly regulations--are hurting their revenues.
These #ACA plans literally asked the court to block their competitors from offering a product because many consumers would like their competitors' products better than #ObamaCare coverage.
“If health economists were in charge of the health system, not a lot would change,” which tells you just about all you need to know about most health economists in the United States. @afrakt ow.ly/bJO030qj6KX
@afrakt More constructively...the responses to this survey's normative questions confirm something that I’ve observed anecdatally: there is a mountainous structural ideological-bias problem in #HealthPolicy.
cc: @KosaliSimon, @cawley_john
cc: @KosaliSimon, @cawley_john
@afrakt @KosaliSimon @cawley_john The health policy professions skew left, because federal and state health policy skew left; thus the set of individuals who select into these professions skews toward those whose ideas concern *how* government should allocate resources/regulate rather than *whether* it should.
About to take the stage at @CatoInstitute to discuss comprehensive syringe services programs. Depending on the location, these facilities provide testing for #STDs and #HepB, & even job interview prep! #CatoHealth
It’s critical we join together to combat stigma. I truly believe it is one of the biggest killers. #WednesdayWisdom #CatoHealth
Comprehensive SSPs are also a critical component to @POTUS’ initiative to #EndHIVEpidemic. #CatoHealth Learn more: hiv.gov/federal-respon…
