Inhaled medications: Nefarious reasons for the lack of competition

Medications
August 29, 2014

Check out the prices for nebulizer solutions of albuterol and budesonide (generic Pulmicort). They are totally affordable. $4 for a month for albuterol. $14 for a month for budesonide respules. Pulmicort respules used to be very expensive. Now even the branded budesonide is  less than 10% of a monthly cable bill.

Then check out the prices of inhaled steroids delivered through meter dose inhaler (MDI) or dry powder inhaler (DPI). These …

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Inhaled medications: Nefarious reasons for the lack of competition

The legal system has serious problems, but who are we to complain?

Physician
February 9, 2014

I have never been involved in a medical malpractice case, but I have recently been the victim of a sociopathic legal abuse situation entirely not related to medicine. It involves a no-good attorney with the ethics of a camel, a multiply convicted felonious sociopath, and his long series of victims including his own prison guards who he is suing because his feelings were hurt.

As my small part of it, I …

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The legal system has serious problems, but who are we to complain?

The cheapest form of health care is to let sick people die

Health Policy
December 21, 2013

If you learn nothing else today, I would ask you to learn that moral hazard is the cause of medical price hyperinflation.

Moral hazard is not just two words that don’t seem to go together. Moral hazard is when the person who bears the economic burden of a decision is not the decision maker. In the health care setting, moral hazard is when the third party payer (insurance/government) bears the …

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The cheapest form of health care is to let sick people die

The unintended beneficial consequences of Obamacare

Health Policy
November 17, 2013

From the point of view of the rational humble classical liberal, Obamacare sucks.

We rebel against the further intrusion of a narcisstic national government into our lives, as any sane person would who recognizes the value of liberty and the repeatedly proven harm of collectivism.

Given that the national government constantly takes away liberty, and given that even the Constitution has been unable to defend our liberty against the onslaught of the …

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The unintended beneficial consequences of Obamacare