- Less developed countries discover how to provide economical mental health care: use non-specialists.
- How reliable are patient online reviews at detecting physician and hospital quality? Not good.
- Is Obamacare’s free preventive medicine mandate unconstitutional? (WSJ)
- 94% of US residents have gotten Covid.
Author: John C. Goodman
Tuesday Links
- The case for micro workouts (10 minutes or less).
- Results of moving from a high-poverty neighborhood to a lower-poverty one: No effect on adults; big effect on children.
- Choice for rural hospitals: Be eaten or face extinction. Dylan Scott explanation: poverty. My explanation: government.
- Health Care in Quebec HT: Tyler Cowen
- Canadian commercial for assisted suicide. HT: Tyler Cowen
- Scientists: Lack of willpower doesn’t cause obesity. I don’t buy it. Have you ever known anyone to lose a lot of weight without exercising willpower?
Monday Links
- Elon Musk threatens to release damning information on Twitter’s internal discussions about the decision to censor the Hunter Biden lap top story.
- Fauci leaves with no apologies. Here is why apologies are needed.
- Scott Atlas: Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, as well as academics who supported lockdown measures, have left behind a harmful legacy that Americans are still grappling with today.
- New Biden regulations threaten to turn Medicaid into “Welfare for All”.
- Which is better: Medicare or Medicare Advantage? NYT gives a biased view.
Friday Links
- Launch price for a course of treatment for Type 1 diabetes approaches $200,000. We predicted the IRA bill would lead to higher launch prices. But even we are shocked by this one.
- Anthony Fauci to be deposed in a lawsuit against the federal government for allegedly colluding with social media companies to censor speech.
- Hospital care at home: outcomes are actually better, but it’s scheduled to go away when the (Covid) public health emergency goes away. (NYT)
- Rare and unusual Covid side effects: hairy tongues, purple toes, welts that sprout on the face, and more. (NYT)
- “Apparently, to the people that write [CDC] guidelines, more people dying of COVID is less of a concern if the deaths are more racially balanced.”
- Over half of Covid deaths are among people who have been vaccinated.
- Scotland is considering these reforms to the National Health Service:
An option to “Pause funding of new development/drugs” unless they can be proved to save the NHS money… Stopping care services altogether and instead sending patients home for care.