- Tyler Cowen explains why he is skeptical of the lead-causes-violence theory.
- Are 15 million Americans about to lose their health insurance?
- Report: there have been at least 275,000 claims submitted for dispute resolution with respect to payments to out of network providers during the first three quarters of 2022. Federal agencies were expecting 17,333 a year.
- In defense of Canadian Euthanasia.
- “Growing evidence suggests that repeated vaccinations may make people more susceptible” to a new covid variant. (WSJ)
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Tuesday Links
- Tyler Cowen: 2022 was a great year for affirming the wisdom of classical economic theory.
- Debunking the benefits of exercise. (speculative)
- Researchers discovered more than half a million conspiratorial and misleading English languages tweets about covid. NYT still hasn’t discovered Elon Musk’s released tweets showing how Twitter censored good information and promoted bad. I guess you have to watch Fox News to know about that.
- The fact that we failed to notice 99.999% of life on Earth until a few years ago is unsettling and has implications for Mars. HT: Tyler
- Why did the IRA bill allow the free-food-for-kids program to expire, while extending tax subsidies for health insurance for the rich. (NYT) Answer: kids don’t vote.
Friday Links
- The federal government approved about $5 trillion in total pandemic relief money; the amount lost to fraud could reach the $250 billion to $560 billion range.
- At-home, rapid antigen tests that let you test for COVID, Influenza, and RSV all at once are widely available in Europe. But you can’t have one because they have not been approved by the FDA.
- Small rural hospitals got pummeled by the pandemic in 2022.
- Not only did the members of Congress not read the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, more than half didn’t even show up to vote. They voted by proxy.
- Pharma study: pharmacy benefit managers and health insurers are ripping off patients. Why didn’t they release this before the election?
It’s the End of the Line for the Travel Nurse Gravy Train
Nurses willing to travel to Covid hotspots could once earn $5,000 a week. Their pay was cut substantially at renewal in March and April of 2022, as demand for traveling nurses declined. Now many nurses who relocated to take on nursing assignments far from home are crying foul. A law firm has even gotten involved claiming nursing travel agencies pulled a “bait and switch” to lure nurses into jobs they would not have taken at lower pay.