health economics
What is the US healthcare system actually optimizing for?: Single-payer advocates
Nine hours That’s how long my kid waited in the ER with a broken arm. We have insurance. Good insurance, actually — the kind with a $6,000 deductible my employer calls "premium." Americans spend $12,500 per person per year on healthcare. Canadians spend $5,900.... What is the US healthcare system actually optimizing for?: Market defenders
The innovation trade The US produced 55 percent of all new molecular entities approved worldwide between 2011 and 2020. More than half. The next closest country was Switzerland at 8 percent....