- China had 1.87 million excess deaths that occurred among individuals 30 years and older during the first 2 months after the end of China’s zero COVID policy.
- Can people think their way to an orgasm?
- Kaiser: Health misinformation is endemic.
- Five thousand pilots lied on medical records to hide conditions that would prevent them sitting in the cockpit.
- How dangerous is pollen?
Category: John C. Goodman
Monday Links
- David Henderson reviews Einav and Finkelstein’s new heath care book.
- Americans who are married with children are happier and more prosperous lives, on average, than men and women who are single and childless.
- Out-party hate is now more powerful than in-party love as a predictor of voting behavior in the United States.
- AEI study: Every additional $1,000 of federal aid per resident led to over 50,000 more Covid tests per 100,000 people. But there was no effect on total vaccinations.
- A bipartisan solution to this problem: barriers to competition in the biologic drug market increase patient costs by more than $30 billion.
Saturday Links
- Paper straws have more forever chemical than plastic straws.
- CMS: ACOs saved Medicare $1.8 billion. That is 2/10ths of 1% of total Medicare spending. Think how much more would have been saved if ACOs were allowed to convert to become Medicare Advantage plans.
- CRFB: the federal government can save $370 billion over ten years by allowing health insurance subsidies for rich people in the (Obamacare) exchanges to expire by 2026.
- As a senator, Joe Biden voted to raise the retirement age and impose a tax on Social Security benefits.
- Should it be health care or healthcare? And why is it CMS rather than CMMS?
Friday Links
- Some colleges and work places have reinstituted mask mandates.
- Two speech paralyzed patients are able to speak at a rate of 70 words per minute, (slightly less than half the rate of a normal conversation) using a computer that picks up electrical signals in the brain.
- One way to fight prior authorization obstacles: Shaming the insurer.
- A surprising consequence of a higher minimum wage: more homelessness.
- How the FDA silences speech – not false speech, but true speech.
- Biden’s FDA is opposing the DeSantis plan to import drugs from Canada. (gated)
- Did you know doctors can specialize in obesity medicine? There are about 100 of them in the US. (gated)