Your blood is a big tattletale. Blood left at a crime scene reveals your identity, and who your relatives are. It tells how well your body is working compared to others. If you drink too much or eat unhealthy foods, your doctor probably knows from your cholesterol and liver enzymes. Your blood can reveal that you are likely to have cancer, or that you are at elevated risk of getting cancer or heart disease in the future.
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.
Why you should take control of your own health
Joe Biden has cancer. His doctors diagnosed him with an aggressive form of State 4 prostate cancer that has already spread to his bones. Many experts are asking how could this happen?
Thursday Links
- Chronic diseases are contributing to America’s stalled life expectancy, which trails other wealthy nations. (WSJ)
- “The NIH … is functioning as welfare for underperforming labs and scientists.”
- Medicaid fraud: In the only two years where full audits of the program were conducted (2019 and 2020), one in four Medicaid dollars were improper payments—payments that should not have been made or that were made in the incorrect amount. Applied over the last decade, that translates to $1.1 trillion in improper payments.
- FDA stops recommending covid booster shots for most Americans.