- Mitch Daniels on a Harris poll: Three fourths of adults over the age of 50 were worried that Social Security would run out in their lifetime, One in five adults over 50 say they have no source of retirement income in addition to Social Security, and only 31 percent have a pension in addition to Social Security 10 years ago.
- Azar: Trump may be tougher than Biden on Medicare drug price negotiations. (InsideHealth Policy)
- Our fiscal problem: Social Security spending is projected to grow at 5.5 percent and Medicare spending at 7.0 percent versus the economy at 2.0 percent and revenue at 4.0 percent.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Should Scientists Experiment on Themselves? Is it Unethical to Publish the Results?
In the early days of scientific drug discovery researchers routinely experimented on themselves. In addition to feeling they had a moral duty to future test subjects, they believed their training and familiarity with a compound made them the best observers of its effects.
Tuesday Links
- RFK’s biggest challenge at HHS: The DEI crowd.
- “In just over 10 years, between 2011 and 2022, the investigators found that annual autism diagnoses tripled among children 5 to 8 years of age.”
- Jay Bhattacharya is the leading candidate to head the NIH. That would be justice.
- The VA has developed a more sophisticated model of lack of access to care beyond reported waiting times.
- Matt Holt: my initial conclusion is that the Trump administration will in the end not change American health care very much. It’s really more of a hope than a reasoned conclusion.
Expanding Access to Drugs Via Over the Counter
Most care is self-care, at least initially. The most common way Americans care for themselves is with an OTC drug.