Healthcare
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GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Keep Getting Cheaper: Thank Competition
Wegovy’s cash price has dropped 75 percent since 2021 as drugmakers compete directly for patients. When insurers stay out, manufacturers must win customers with lower prices. Competition is making better health more abundant.
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
Humanity is approaching an unprecedented demographic turn. Can productivity outrun population decline?
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Abdul El-Sayed Has a Socialist Platform and a Capitalist Life
Abdul El-Sayed and his wife prosper by treating their medical credentials as private goods. Now he campaigns against the system that made it possible.
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What Makes Pharmaceutical Speaker Programs Illegal?
The missing consumer in health care helps explain the strange economics — and legal risks — of drug companies paying doctors.
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Professionals to ‘Labor’: Why California’s Doctors Are Unionizing
California’s unionization campaign reveals the economic and institutional shifts away from physician ownership and professional autonomy.
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More Paperwork Won’t Make Medicine Cheaper
Transparency matters, but the Department of Labor’s duplicative disclosure mandates could increase compliance costs while strengthening the industry’s largest firms.
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States Relying on Federal Aid Face a Reckoning
Pandemic-era aid allowed many states to expand spending without confronting long-term costs. The bill is coming due.
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Ozempic Sat Unused for Decades Because Invention Is Not Enough
Pfizer knew GLP-1s worked in 1990, but didn’t see their potential. The 30-year detour shows entrepreneurship matters as much as raw invention.
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School Choice Can Make America Healthy Again
From sleep deprivation to obesity to overmedication, many of the problems facing American children are reinforced by the structure of modern schooling.
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The Feudal Economics of Modern Healthcare: How Regulation Turned Medicine into a Fiefdom
Government-created healthcare monopolies are forcing physicians into a kind of serfdom, gobbling up private practices to extract doctors’ labor.
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GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Keep Getting Cheaper: Thank Competition
Wegovy’s cash price has dropped 75 percent since 2021 as drugmakers compete directly for patients. When insurers stay out, manufacturers must win customers with lower prices. Competition is making better health more abundant.
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
Humanity is approaching an unprecedented demographic turn. Can productivity outrun population decline?
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Abdul El-Sayed Has a Socialist Platform and a Capitalist Life
Abdul El-Sayed and his wife prosper by treating their medical credentials as private goods. Now he campaigns against the system that made it possible.
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What Makes Pharmaceutical Speaker Programs Illegal?
The missing consumer in health care helps explain the strange economics — and legal risks — of drug companies paying doctors.
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Professionals to ‘Labor’: Why California’s Doctors Are Unionizing
California’s unionization campaign reveals the economic and institutional shifts away from physician ownership and professional autonomy.
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More Paperwork Won’t Make Medicine Cheaper
Transparency matters, but the Department of Labor’s duplicative disclosure mandates could increase compliance costs while strengthening the industry’s largest firms.
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States Relying on Federal Aid Face a Reckoning
Pandemic-era aid allowed many states to expand spending without confronting long-term costs. The bill is coming due.
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•
Ozempic Sat Unused for Decades Because Invention Is Not Enough
Pfizer knew GLP-1s worked in 1990, but didn’t see their potential. The 30-year detour shows entrepreneurship matters as much as raw invention.
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•
School Choice Can Make America Healthy Again
From sleep deprivation to obesity to overmedication, many of the problems facing American children are reinforced by the structure of modern schooling.
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•
The Feudal Economics of Modern Healthcare: How Regulation Turned Medicine into a Fiefdom
Government-created healthcare monopolies are forcing physicians into a kind of serfdom, gobbling up private practices to extract doctors’ labor.