What should be the FDA’s mission: to crank out drug approvals or only approve ones that are safe and effective?
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Monday Links
- Is Trump’s FDA worse than Biden’s?
- Jon Gruber’s latest ideas on health policy.
- The disability scam: At Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Amherst, that figure is 34 percent.
- To promote population growth, China is taxing condoms.
- 43 percent of Utah adults on safety-net programs admitted to having deliberately limited their household income to avoid losing government benefits, including by turning down a raise or promotion.
- GAO on Obamacare subsidies: $94 million paid to insurers for deceased people.
Saturday Links
- The proportion of preventive primary care visits nearly doubled from 2001–2019.
- People with learning disabilities in the United Kingdom are being given “do not resuscitate” (DNR) orders in their medical records without the knowledge or consent of their families.
- Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost.
- Why is the US government taking an ownership stake in struggling private companies?
- Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins: they found “186,000 dead people or dead people’s social security numbers being used and 500,000 people receiving benefits more than twice.”
Congress Debating Extending Medicare Hospital Care at Home Program
Hospital care at home involves a homecare nurse (or homecare technician), who swings by to check on patients, administer medicines, change bandages, etc. This is primarily recovery. (i.e., There is no surgery being done on the dining room table.) One thing that is different today (besides better medicines) is the ability to monitor patients remotely. Vital signs can even be reviewed by a physician miles away.