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Looking at COVID-19 protection policies from an economic rather than an emotional perspective allows policymakers to see how limited resources can be used to achieve the greatest common good.

To make Covid avoidance measures worthwhile, the student would have to value his time at $13,600 an hour!

Data was not always downloadable in a user-friendly format and hospitals often failed to provide HCPCS codes for services.

The Obama administration was extremely hostile to HRAs. Other free-market reforms are also under attack: short-term insurance and association health plans.

The worst problem with Obamacare insurance is that it is second-rate. Look around the country: in area after area, top-quality ACA plans have exited the market.

“There are many things the government can do to lower drug prices. In each case, deregulating and freeing the private sector is key."

“Trump had to do this on his own, with no help from Congress.”

People are more careful when spending their own money than when spending someone else’s money. Second, virtually all the patient-pleasing innovations that have occurred in recent years are for services people buy with their own money. Third, when patients are spending their own money, they get the full benefits and bear the full costs of their own decisions."

Trump’s most important domestic policy accomplishments were in the area of deregulation. And no industry was more impactfully deregulated than health care. Trump got a lot of things right.

Jonathan Gruber, one of the authors of the study, entitled “Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System,” helped write the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare and was the architect of “Romneycare” in Massachusetts.