- Wealth inequality has barely changed over the last 30 years if Social Security wealth is included.
- Private insurers are paying 78 percent more at hospital outpatient departments than they pay at ambulatory surgical centers. Medicare payments are 97 percent higher.
- Takaichi Sanae: She plays the drums and rides a motor cycle.
- With Covid-era subsidies, Obamacare is almost free.
- Gingrich and Jindal: Use the $50 billion for rural health care for prevention and primary care. rather than to extend the life of unsustainable facilities.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Thursday Links
- Johns Hopkins prof: arguments for letting the covid-era subsidies expire. (WSJ)
- French pensioners now have higher incomes than working age adults.
- The Economist says nicotine makes you smarter and has no downsides.
- Roughly 55% of the $276 billion of global pharmaceutical research and development investment in 2021 was by companies headquartered in the United States, compared with just 29% to Europe.
- Mississippi and Louisiana now have better reading scores than all blue states.
Democrats Fight to Extend Obamacare Costly Middle-Class Subsidies
Democrats in Congress are desperately trying to keep Obamacare on life support. The latest scare tactic is from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), which estimates that Obamacare premiums will rise 114% without extending the so-called enhanced subsidies.
Public Health Community Bypasses HHS; Creates Own Vaccine Recommendations
Suffice it to say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has many detractors and is not well liked or respected by the public health community. Thus, it should come as no surprise then that the public health community is moving to set up their own recommendations outside of HHS.