1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (908+ words) The missing consumer in health care helps explain the strange economics — and legal risks — of drug companies paying doctors. In 2022, Biogen agreed to pay $900 million to resolve allegations that it caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare and Medicaid…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (140+ words) The pandemic exposed weaknesses that had accumulated over decades....

2+ mon, 49+ min ago   (436+ words) The government has a habit of chasing simple villains for deeply complicated problems. Every few years, politicians point to either drug manufacturers, insurers, hospitals, pharmacies, or “middlemen” as key to finally lowering drug costs and cleaning up the healthcare system....

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3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (279+ words) Government-created healthcare monopolies are forcing physicians into a kind of serfdom, gobbling up private practices to extract doctors’ labor. American medicine today offers a vivid illustration of this pattern, as government-created barriers sustain local monopolies, nonprofit hospital systems function as…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (411+ words) We’re producing too few workers to support more retirees, living longer. The demographic trap has sprung on pay-as-you-go taxation. Medicare is not merely a senior health program; it is an elaborate intergenerational contract with a hidden clause: it quietly runs…...

8+ mon, 4+ day ago   (605+ words) Medicaid’s size and complexity create endless opportunities for gaming the rules. Incentives are skewed and accountability is weak., and the taxpayer always foots the bill. This comes at the cost of reducing quality of care and access to care for…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (238+ words) In most fields, we celebrate innovators and experts that start new firms and improve efficiency. In health care, we’ve forbidden it for a decade. In most sectors of the American economy, we celebrate the moment when insiders break away to…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (410+ words) The ACA obscures the true costs of healthcare. The government shutdown revealed just how much. Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health insurance premiums have steadily increased, as has healthcare’s proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP)....