- Among beneficiaries without subsidies, the percent who did not fill a prescription for a specialty drug within 90 days was 30 percent for anticancer drugs, 22 percent for hepatitis C treatments, and more than 50 percent for disease-modifying therapies for either immune system disorders or hypercholesterolemia.
- Why Social Security finances will steadily worsen indefinitely into the future.
- On current trends Africans will make up over 80% of the world’s poor by 2030.
- Some hospitals are still getting hundreds of millions in Covid funding from FEMA. (Statnews)
- The federal government’s new-car fuel economy standards (CAFE) have resulted in thousands of traffic deaths.
Author: John C. Goodman
Monday Links
- Does testosterone affect such preferences as risk taking, fairness and altruism, etc.? No.
- A progressive reviews America’s worst mayor.
- Review of Jeffrey Singer’s new book.
- What price should we pay for new drugs? Part I, Part II and Part III
Friday Links
- California Medicaid (Medi-Cal) covers 1.6 million illegal immigrants at an estimated cost of $6.4 billion.
- Defense of the idea that 1.2 million Americans died of Covid.
- People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder should not have access to pot.
- Yglesias: Don’t ban lab grown meat.
- Marco Rubio claim repeated at Marginal Revolution: Only 12 cents of every dollar spent from USAID went to recipients, the other 88 cents went to NGOs who pocketed the money.
- Refuted by Scott Alexander.