- Does health care improve health? Scott Alexander contra Robin Hanson.
- Certificate of need (CON) laws still operate in 35 states.
- Why Medicare won’t pay for additional breast scans.
- Is the government hiding something about the “Havana Syndrome”?
- Why ACOs aren’t working.
- Cost of new regulations under Biden: $1.37 trillion.
Category: John C. Goodman
Thursday Links
- Commonwealth Fund finds major differences in health care inputs and outcomes across racial and ethnic groups. It completely ignores the role of genes.
- Earth Day good news: Over the past 60 years, GDP is up nearly 800% but emissions are down 60% even though we are still using record amounts of fossil fuels.
- New Guinea Prime Minister to Joe Biden: “We are not cannibals.”
- Joe Biden promised to never cut Medicare and “to stop” anyone who tries. He just cut benefits for 33 million enrollees in Medicare advantage.
Wednesday Links
- Debt and more debt.
- How computer programs determine how much pain medication you are allowed to have.
- What happens when employees go out of network?
Tuesday Links
- Yglesias on why our life expectancy is lower than in other developed countries: Americans are more likely to die violently, to die in car accidents, and to die of drug overdoses than are Europeans. We’re also a lot fatter.
- Why doing university-based research has become so costly.
- Self-directed care is now available for veterans in rural areas – and it works.
- Fallout from the Dobbs decision: tubal ligations and vasectomies are up.
- Suppose you are willing to be a guinea pig in a medical experiment. Where can you find out where your sacrifice will have the highest social value? No one seems to know.