- Ross Douthat: the case against marijuana.
- Evidence that corporate ownership improves healthcare outcomes in a setting where patients have access to service pricing and quality information – the market for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).
- Everything you want to know about when gays can donate blood.
- The new mammogram recommendations can potentially lead to a lot of unnecessary, and potentially harmful, care.
- The downside of privacy regulations: As of November 2021, at least 70% of healthcare providers still exchange medical information by fax because historically there has been no option to send EMRs using modern internet services.
- Why more regulation leads to more monopoly power.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Family Caregiving an Underrated Benefit of Remote Work
Covid changed everything. It has been three years since a mysterious virus began spreading around the globe and throughout the United States. From March of 2020 through August of that same year aggressive measures were put in place by the CDC to prevent the spread of Covid. As the pandemic took hold, lockdowns began. Non-essential businesses closed and there were strict criteria determining which could remain open while all others were shuttered. Schools and daycares closed, kids sheltered at home and did schoolwork over zoom.
Monday Links
David Henderson: If you read or watch nothing else about Covid-19 today or this weekend, make sure you watch Margery Smelkinson’s 4-minute testimony. Charlie Hooper on Ivermectin. How student loans are like health insurance: graduate students will account for 48 percent of new federal student loans … graduates of master’s degree programs owe over $55,000 and graduates of professional programs owe…
Saturday Links
- The US government has reinstated funding to EcoHealth Alliance, the agency that collaborated on bat research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China.
- Krguman on how Pharma avoids paying income taxes. Answer: tax people, not corporations
- Food Stamps: “We find the fastest-growing groups of the adult caseload suffer from low employment levels and poor health outcomes.”
- Top 20 hospitals and their CEOs racked up huge pandemic profits.