What Trump Has Done to Change Health Care and How It’s Helped Battle COVID-19; Here’s how the media is misreporting COVID-19’s death toll in America, and other C-Virus Updates
What Trump Has Done to Change Health Care and How It’s Helped Battle COVID-19:
Deregulation and market forces are making care more available at lower cost.
Our health-care system is experiencing rapid, powerful change, far more
consequential than is generally recognized. Although these changes are welcomed
by many in the health-policy community (see our assessment a year ago), even
those who applaud them have been surprised at their speed and impact
What follows is a brief overview of what the Trump administration has done to reform
the health-care system — in some cases, with the compliant help of Congress. The
vision behind the Trump reforms can be found in Reforming America’s HealthcareSystem Through Choice and Competition. This 124-page Health and Human Services
document from 2018 argues that the most serious problems in health care arise
because of government failure, not market failure.
In pursuing its vision, the administration has aggressively pursued its options under current law. We nowneed Congress to make the revolution complete. —>READ MORE HERE
Here’s how the media is misreporting COVID-19’s death toll in America:
On Sept. 22, CNN triumphantly announced that 200,000 people had died from COVID-19 in the United States.
CNN tried various ways of rubbing in the 200,000 figure. Their best effort was an infographic blaring, “US COVID-19 deaths are equal to having the 9/11 attacks every day for 66 days.”
Here’s a less biased, but less catchy, comparison: 2020’s attributed COVID-19 deaths were equivalent to having another 2017-2018 flu and pneumonia season boosted by 13 percent.
The CDC estimated that about 177,000 Americans died during the 2017-2018 flu season, from either the flu itself or by complications of pneumonia. (The CDC never made a public announcement about this number, but you can count it yourself from data on its site, as I did in the chart below.) That was a bad year, noted at the time, but mostly by medical professionals. Those with good memories will recall seeing more “Wash Your Hands” and “Cough Into Your Elbows” posters. —>READ MORE HERE
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