- Is exercise the most potent medical intervention we have?
- 22 million children now have access to school choice.
- The case for physician owned hospitals.
- The best-designed studies indicate that interventions focused on “social determinants of health” (inadequate housing, food insecurity, etc.) yield only weak effects on health.
- Class action litigation reduces corporate innovation, and vice versa.
- Confiscating every last penny from billionaires wouldn’t fund the U.S. government for one year.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
TikTok Therapists Promoting Family Estrangement Therapy to Young People
Public health advocates report there is a growing mental health crisis among young people, especially since covid. One outcome of mental health challenges is an emerging therapeutic estrangement fad on social media. I’m referring to the trend of TikTok therapists and sociology gurus on YouTube counseling young adults on becoming estranged from family members.
Saturday Links
- Corporate inversions transfer the company’s tax residence to another country. There have been zero inversions since the passage of the Trump tax reform in 2017.
- Comparing the regulatory costs and benefits of the last three presidents.
- Since the Biden CMS doesn’t believe in market solutions, they are inviting states to experiment with hospital “global budgets.” Just like Canada?
- 40% of cancers are linked to bad behavior.
- The FTC’s case against PBMs.
- Pro PBMs; anti Pharma.
- The 340B Program … is on track to eventually surpass Medicare Part D spending, becoming the largest federal prescription drug program.
Study: People Do Not Learn From Failure and Need Taxpayer-Supported Help
A new study found that individuals who believe that people learn from failure, and often succeed after failure, are less empathetic.