- The liberal plantation? Washington, D.C., has the largest gap in racial economic equality, compared to the 50 states. The capital also has the largest median income, homelessness rate, unemployment rate, and labor force participation gaps. Study.
- Why has health care been relatively unimpacted by general inflation?
- Poll: One in ten men would like to be cloned
- Why did Biden agree to let China (and other “developing countries”) steal our intellectual property with respect to Covid vaccines?
- A column by New York Times’ David Leonhardt made a bold claim: “The death rate for white Americans has recently exceeded the rates for Black, Latino and Asian Americans.” The claim is almost assuredly wrong.
Category: John C. Goodman
Does Voting Republican Kill?
According to a British Medical Journal study, counties that voted for GOP presidential candidates between 2000 and 2016 had smaller reductions in age-adjusted mortality rates over the past two decades than counties that backed their Democratic rivals.
Yet, Doug Badger finds the study deeply flawed.
HSA-Bashing Study Slammed
32 million people have a Health Savings Account with more than $100 billion in balances. And they love them. They would love them even more if we could dispense with the across-the-board, high deductible requirement and let the account be perfectly flexible with respect to their health insurance.
Friday Links
- AMA To FDA: Allow OTC Birth Control Pill. Something we have favored for years, but don’t stop there!
- AMA rejects economics: calls for a higher minimum wage. (Pardon us for thinking that the OTC position was based on sound economic reasoning.)
- How manufacturers manipulate the rules to avert competition from generic competitors – the case of asthma inhalers.
- How Biden’s policies have undermined his previous vice presidential goal of a “moon shot” to eradicate cancer.