Most absurd, nearly $2 billion of American Rescue Plan funds were earmarked for nonexistent county governments in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Source: Jacob Lane, Wall Street Journal
Author: John C. Goodman
Saturday Links
- What the classical thinkers thought about mental health.
- More than 300 hospitals are deploying or preparing to dispatch paramedics, nurse practitioners and other medical staff to treat patients at home instead of in hospital settings, a service widely referred to as hospital at home. They get paid the same hospital-stay rate. (WSJ)
- George Halvorson calls MedPac report “fake news.”
- More on diet and dementia. Study: an anti-inflammatory diet reduced the risk of developing dementia by 31 percent.
- 450 agents and brokers suspended for enrolling and switching people in exchange plans without their consent.
- Is RFK Jr right? Is a surge in chronic diseases, cancer, neurodevelopmental disorders, metabolic syndrome, and Alzheimer’s disease caused by Big Sugar, Big Ag, Big Pharma, and the cabal of government sycophants who do the bidding of their corporate sugar daddies?
- “Social capital” for individuals increases with market income and decreases with government transfer payments.
Friday Links
- Three bad laws: Certificate of need, the Stark Law, and limits on physician owned hospitals.
- Out-of-pocket prescription costs under a typical silver plan are twice as high as they are in the average employer plan.
- Loneliness: 24% of Americans with a high school diploma or less education report having no close friends, compared to 10% of college graduates.
- “To ameliorate drug shortages … enable overseas manufacturers to sell products in the United States that already have received marketing approval from certain foreign governments with standards comparable to those of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and vice versa. In a word, reciprocity.”
- Ultra processed foods linked to dementia. (NYT)
- The Biden/Harris administration really is “beating” Medicare – with payment cuts for doctors, hospitals and Medicare Advantage plans.
Thursday Links
- How can it be a crime for a consulting firm to help a drug company promote its product to customers?
- Members of Congress consistently beat the market on stock trades.
- Eli Lilly will allow self-pay patients to purchase (direct-to-consumer) the weight-loss drug Zepbound for less than half the list price.
- 10 states have passed new laws this year aimed at reducing the growing burden of prior authorization requirement.
- Opportunities for Democrats to learn about public policy while they were in Chicago: the city has the highest homicide rate in the country and only 21% of eight graders are proficient in reading. But did they really learn anything? (WSJ)