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Friday Links

Posted on August 26, 2022September 21, 2022 by John C. Goodman

100% of large health insurers cover telemedicine for mental health and other behavioral health problems.  (gated)

However, more therapists are refusing to accept private insurance. (WSJ)

Israeli study: Paxlovid (for Covid) lowered hospitalization rates in 65-year-olds and older by about 75%, but people ages 40-64 who took the drug shortly after infection saw little to no benefit.

Kaiser: Most Medicare beneficiaries will soon get their coverage through Medicare Advantage.

A liberal critiques Biden: He needs advisers who think like economists. A good read if you are an Yglesias subscriber.

1 thought on “Friday Links”

  1. David G. Anderson says:
    August 26, 2022 at 11:18 am

    Yglesias may be an economist, but he thinks like only half an economist. When he says that economic reasoning has a reduced role in the Biden administration, he is ludicrously understating the case. The Biden administration’s agenda is completely driven by politics, and economics plays virtually no role at all. And the results speak for themselves: persistent high inflation, slow or negative growth, declining productivity, growing unemployment (captured in the lower labor force participation rate, not the unemployment rate – a flawed statistic), and “supply chain” problems, many of which are caused by labor shortages enabled by government handouts or by misguided industrial policy – e.g., the push toward electric autos.

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