- Eight of the 25 major work stoppages involving 1,000 workers in 2022 were initiated by health care workers.
- Of the $586 billion spent on drugs in 2021, more than 30% ($179 billion) was captured by intermediaries such as PBMs.
- Chris Pope: America actually has five health care systems.
- An old essay that’s worth rereading: “How doctors Die.” HT: Richard Hanania.
- What its liked to be a nurse in the British NHS.
- Is there a religious (pre-Christian) argument for Canadian Euthanasia? (Ross Douthat in the NYT)
Author: John C. Goodman
Thursday Links
- Are family leave policies keeping women’s wages down?
- Study: Medicare Advantage is substantially better than traditional Medicare for diabetes.
- GOP House to investigate federal funding of gain-of-function research.
- Asian-Americans have a life expectancy of 85.7, compared to the US average of 79.1. (“I suspect that highly educated Asian Americans have a life expectancy that is absolutely off the charts.”)
- Why was there a surge of traffic deaths in the first year of the pandemic?
- Why is the FDA hostile to personalized tests?
Wednesday Links
- Pfizer board member pressured Twitter to suppress info on natural immunity and low Covid risk to children.
- The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated an overall decline in religious attendance. Arnold Kling extends to observation to the reluctance of employees to return to work and the disengagement of college students.
- Now we learn. WaPo: Russian trolls on Twitter had little impact on 2016 voters.
- Solution to Obamacare’s high premiums and narrow networks: Let people purchase plans from Puerto Rico and other US territories from established insurers – like Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Humana and BlueCross BlueShield — which already do business in at least one territory and have provider networks in Arizona.
Tuesday Links
- How the Romans chose new leaders: Of the 69 rulers of the unified Roman Empire, from Augustus (d. 14 CE) to Theodosius (d. 395 CE), 62% suffered violent death.
- Scott Sumner: Nationalism is hazardous to your health.
- Paul Ehrlich promoted more fake predictions on “60 Minutes.”
- WaPo: Social Security’s is using of archaic job-availability lists to deny benefits to obviously disabled people.
- WaPo: Social Security is imposing of astronomical penalties on people, many poor and disables, for spending checks mistakenly sent them by Social Security.
- The far more egregious financial malfeasance that WaPo missed: the huge fraud Social Security has committed against 13,000 plus widow(er)s who collectively have been swindled out of $130 million.