- Biden supports striking health care workers over patients. Actually, the president appears to believe every worker should get more pay – meaning, I suppose, we should all pay more for everything we buy.
- Lancet study on warming: In 2021, more than 2.5 billion hours of labor in the U.S. agriculture, construction, manufacturing and service sectors were lost to heat exposure.
- Sen. Tim Scott was right: Thomas Sowell points out that in 1960—almost 100 years after slavery—only 22% of African-American children grew up in homes with one parent. Thirty years later, after the expansion of the welfare state under the Great Society, that percentage had tripled. (WSJ)
- Should medical debt be banned from credit reports? (NYT)
- In the 1950s and 1960s, the Army used blowers on top of buildings and in the backs of station wagons to spray a potential carcinogen into the air surrounding a St. Louis housing project where most residents were Black. More here
Author: John C. Goodman
Friday Links
- “mRNA vaccines reached production despite the system, rather than because of it.”
- Fake health news on TikTok.
- To speed up drug approvals, recognize reliable approvals in other countries.
- Timothy Taylor: Update on the opioid epidemic.
- The National Portrait Gallery, which contains memorable drawings of great Americans throughout our nation’s history, is displaying a picture of Fauci????
Thursday Links
- To deal with misleading ads in the Medicare Advantage open enrollment period, CMS has tried every possible remedy except the obvious one: let doctors advise their own patients about the choices.
- Inequality in life expectancy: “the least-educated Americans have seen their death rates surge in a way that more-educated Americans have not.
- A Trump executive order requires giving consumers full pricing information for medications. It looks like the courts are going to force the Biden administration to enforce that rule.
- Covid vaccine mandates are back – in red state Texas!
- Food stamp spending has doubled in the last four years.
- David Friedman wonders if he can escape death.
Wednesday Links
- France to offer health insurance for pets. Pet rats may be included.
- Winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with mRNA vaccines was previously demoted by the University of Pennsylvania for her research in that area.
- NYC becomes first in the nation to make abortion care available via telehealth.
- Casey Mulligan: The Biden administration’s first two years of rulemaking created more than $1 trillion in regulatory costs or about $10,000 per household.