It did not have to be this way. The COVID-19 pandemic cost American citizens their lives, their livelihoods, education, mental health, reputations and, ultimately, civil and religious freedoms. “The U.S. accounts for less than 5% of the world’s population, but more than 25% of total COVID-19 cases reported across the globe, and it currently ranks among the top 10 countries in COVID-19-related deaths per capita,” wrote the authors of 2023 commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And for all that, we have government to thank.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Should You Die at Home?
Both my parents passed away in an institution in an institutional bed. One in a hospital bed in a critical care unit, the other in a nursing home bed. The Wall Street Journal reports that increasingly, people are choosing to die at home in their own bed. The Journal asks whimsically, “is that a good thing?”
Wednesday Links
- “High blood pressure is responsible for more deaths than any other risk factor, including smoking.”
- Why banning “bad foods” from food stamp purchases won’t work.
- The IRA bill: most beneficiaries are unlikely to see a substantial reduction in their out-of-pocket costs from the federal price setting, and for many, costs will actually increase.
- “Before members of the new Congress even walk through the doors of the Capitol to be sworn in, almost every dollar of revenue for the year has already been committed.”
- Covid was bad for physician incomes.
Friday Links
- The Deputy Director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review declined the covid booster shot. Recommended
- 11% of all physicians in the United States and 25% of current medical students are osteopaths.
- Gen Z college students: mainly ignorant about the world.
- CBO: If Congress allows the Obamacare “enhanced subsidies” to expire next year, the population of uninsured will increase by only one percentage point.
- Capretta on the benefits of price transparency and the many reason it isn’t working very well.