- Missing from the progressives’ 2024 agenda: Medicare for All.
- Medicaid waivers have consistent outcomes: more Medicaid spending.
- The very top performers in virtually any field are extremely smart.
- The average time to see a physician in 2o20 was 26 days—an 8 percent increase from 2017 and a 24 percent spike since 2004.
- The CDC’s definition of misinformation: anything that contradicts the views of the CDC.
Why are So Many Americans Self-Medicating with Herbal Remedies and Dietary Supplements?
Hardly a day goes by but what I hear about health food elixirs, herbal remedies or new health biohacks that are supposed to improve your life. These often claim to make you age more slowly, reduce your stress levels or provide some nebulous health benefit like detoxing. These dietary supplements are often in the form of capsules or liquids you ingest but sometimes intended to mixed into smoothies. Plants have a lot of medicinal effects. Many medicines were originally derived and synthesized from plants. In antiquity people turned to plants because medicinal plants were their only options.
Thursday Links
- Can skipping meals give you a longer, healthier life?
- Why low-skilled immigration helps the economy.
- Q & A on “suicide clusters,” an abnormal increase in suicides (usually among teenagers) in a short period of time. Good questions; disappointing answers.
- Parents can use IVF to select the sex of their baby. That’s illegal in almost every other country.
- Can mental health counselling make kids worse off?
- Could your personalized AI be called on to testify against you?
Wednesday Links
- The case for value -based drug pricing.
- The costs of mask wearing: To be exempted from a three-month mask mandate, the average person was willing to pay $525, and some (0.9%) were willing to pay over $5,000.
- Are prisons turning into de facto nursing homes?
- Are scientists trying to cure sickle cell disease through gene editing doing so by using the genomes of white Europeans?
- Health risk assessments — typically in-home reviews of enrollees’ health status – add as much as $12 billion in risk adjusted payments to Medicare Advantage plans.