Thursday Links
- Claim from new paper, via Alex Tabarrok: “Prohibiting the FDA from regulating e-cigarettes reduced smoking attributable mortality by nearly 10% on average each year from 2011-2019 for a total savings of some 677,000 life-years, or approximately 1/3 the estimated benefit of early HIV/AIDS drugs through year 2000.”
- Results from California: a $20 minimum wage really does cause people to lose their jobs.
- What UnitedHealth executives get paid.
- NIH Director: Trump’s anti DEI directive does not prevent research on minority health problems.
- RFK Jr.’s “ban” on food dyes is actually “voluntary.”
NYT: Preventive Care Under Attack at Supreme Court
Whether or not it is a good idea to mandate preventive service is a worthy debate. The problem with mandates is that without hospitals and health plans competing on the basis of price, quality and other amenities, the services are likely to become worthless.
Wednesday Links
- Former Obama economist: Green energy is not substituting for fossil fuel energy; it is merely adding to the total.
- Claim: As many as 45 percent of dementia cases could be delayed or prevented with simple changes in behavior. (NYT) (speculative in my opinion.)
- People don’t act like they care about income inequality.
- Dershowitz on Harvard v. Trump.
- WSJ on the Pope: “He championed the poor, while favoring ideas that keep them poor.”