- Why patients don’t get enough pain medicine: doctor indifference and drug thieves.
- The annual retail value of goods Americans buy and then return approaches a trillion dollars. HT: Tyler
- Main drug killer of 35 to 44-year-old adults by far is synthetic opioids.
- Should we care about “forever chemicals” that lurk in so much of what we eat, drink and use? Studies show they are bad for rats. (NYT)
- Man believes pediatric doctor reported him to Child Protective Services in retaliation over a bad Google review.
- Richard Hanania with a commonsense review of the risks and benefits of the Covid vaccine.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Tuesday Links
- Study: even small amounts of alcohol are bad for you. HT: Tyler
- Fake news from the New York Times: How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox
- Turns out the real culprit for the Maui fires was bad government policy.
- The reason for not getting another covid vaccine shot right now: We don’t know what covid variant will be threatening us in the fall. (NYT)
- Study: extreme heat causes psychosis, dementia and substance misuse. Since cold kills more people than heat, I am skeptical.
Saturday Links
- Reprint of a Uwe Reinhart classic: how Republican administrations gave us health care price controls and Keynesian economics fiscal policy.
- OxyContin and the Sacklers return to TV in a Netflix series fact checked by Slate.
- Blue Shield of California tears up the prescription drug playbook and partners with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. (WSJ)
- Did you know the US government is stockpiling cheese ….. and raisins?
- What happens to the roughly 20 million people slated to lose Medicaid coverage? The vast majority have other insurance and apparently didn’t need to be on Medicaid in the first place. (WSJ)
- COVID experts calling for masks again — even at home!
Wednesday Links
- Jeff Goldsmith does an about face: vertical integration in health care doesn’t work.
- Study: Which matters more for ER spending – price increases or upcoding? Next study should examine the IQ of the insurers who pay the ER fees.
- 99% of hospitals pharmacists report drug shortages, causing 85% to ration treatments and 84% to rely on different dosages. (STAT)
- Another cost of covid lockdowns: fewer stage 1 cancers were diagnosed and treated – leading to more stage 4 cancers and deaths. (WSJ)
- The next president of Argentina may be a libertarian.
- School Choice in Los Angeles: It works.
- Scott Sumner has the best explanation I have seen on why inflation is a monetary phenomenon – something Keynesians have been slow to accept.