Note to medical professionals in 2022: You may greatly embarrass your great-grandchildren. From 1999 to 2017, I taught 48 semester-long classes in health economics to master’s and doctoral students. My students were mid-career doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. Today, I ...
Who says bipartisan solutions to high prescription drug prices are impossible? Senators Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, recently introduced legislation to rein in the biggest culprit behind high drug costs: pharmacy benefit managers. The bill prohibits some of PBMs’ ...
The Food and Drug Administration’s recently announced proposal to ban menthol cigarettes is ill advised on multiple fronts. Not only does this proposal make no economic sense but it also fails to recognize a simple fact: People in a free society should be free to choose their poison. The ...
The 27-member European Union has agreed to a partial ban on Russian oil in a move that will affect 75 percent of its imports now and 90 percent by the end of the year. The bloc had originally proposed to impose an immediate and full embargo on all Russian imported oil but had to settle for a ...
Physical wallets are becoming obsolete. For instance, my money clip hasn’t seen much action in cold, hard cash for quite some time. And recently when I was hanging out with some friends, I never touched my credit cards as both orderings and paying for the meal were done only through my ...
In recent months, much of the green lobby has been focussing its ire on palm oil. If it were up to the lobby, importing and using this common vegetable oil would be banned overnight. In fact, the European Union has already done something similar, and is working on a total palm oil import ban. ...
