- Humans living in the Bronze Age used hallucinogens.
- AEI: work requirements for welfare benefits actually work.
- AI is assisting doctors, not replacing them. It produces better diagnoses and helps avoid prescription errors. (WSJ)
- Anti-Covid measures didn’t keep people from getting Covid; but they did almost wipe out the flu. (WSJ)
- Health Affairs study: From 21–61 percent of enrollees in ACA plans paid for preventive services that are supposed to be free.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Withdrawal Pains: Covid Welfare State is Disbanding
In the early, panicked days of the pandemic, the United States government did something that was previously unimaginable. It transformed itself, within weeks, into something akin to a European-style welfare state.
Why Is American Life Expectancy Tanking? It’s the Early Death of the Young
Americans are now dying younger on average than they used to, breaking from all global and historical patterns of predictable improvement. They are dying younger than in any peer countries, even accounting for the larger impact of the pandemic here. They are dying younger than in China, Cuba, the Czech Republic or Lebanon….
Monday Links
- Trustees: Social Security to run out in 2033; Medicare runs out in 2031.
- The earth’s population just passed 8 billion. Why some scholars think that’s good.
- Awards for dysfunction in health care.
- Judge: Obamacare preventive medicine freebies are out: Five things to know. Why the mandates were a waste of money anyway.
- What preventive procedures would patients pay for with their own money?