Category: Cost of Healthcare
Tuesday Links
- RAND: Eight million adults in the U.S. used psilocybin (the main psychedelic substance in magic mushrooms) in 2023.
- NYT: Psychedelics are popular with CEOs.
- Female doctors in Myanmar can earn more money as prostitutes than practicing medicine.
- Are everyday chemicals causing the fertility decline in women?
- Cancer prevention advice.
Monday Links
- Why haven’t we found a cure for cancer?
- The most important barrier to income mobility in our economy: government regulations.
- Opioid settlement money is being wasted.
- DOGE opportunities: “There is upwards of $200 billion worth of savings sitting on the shelf right now in ignored GAO recommendations.
- Organic molecules are ubiquitous in the universe.
- We might be able to save 600,000 children from death by malaria by altering mosquito genes. But should we?
Saturday Links
- Penn Wharton Budget Model fiscal reform proposal: much flatter income tax, a carbon tax, mainly no exclusion for employer provided heath insurucne, higher retirement age, etc.
- Kids who pass the marshmallow test turn out to be happier later in life.
- Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022.
- Despite concerns about vaccine safety, the (child) vaccination rate today is the same as it was 40 years ago.
- Employee benefits for gig workers.