- How much is Medicare spending on the new weight loss drugs?
- Data suggests only about 30 percent of the reported COVID-19 deaths were “from COVID-19” as the underlying cause.
- Drug induced deaths among Blacks is soaring. Is an open border the reason?
- More evidence that Fauci lied and covered up Wuhan Lab funding.
- Why Biden is wrong about wanting to repeal TCJA (the Trump tax cuts).
- Far more people drink alcohol than consume marijuana; but more people consume marijuana than consume alcohol on a daily basis. (WaPo)
- Ambroxol is a miracle drug for coughs and colds. It has been in wide use since 1979, and is available nearly everywhere in the world as a generic. But not in the U.S.
- Electrical impulses are helping paralyzed patients move.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Friday Links
- Are drug companies abusing the patent system by filing multiple additional patents on a drug to keep generics out of the market?
- The National Institutes of Health is proposing price controls for drugs.
- Nearly 70% of Gaza aid from a US-built pier was stolen.
- Should Ozempic be sold over-the-counter?
- Top Fauci adviser allegedly destroyed evidence about origins of COVID-19 pandemic.
- Physicians spend more than four hours a day on average managing and updating EHR. Why can’t AI do the job?
- Could the Chinese system have an advantage over liberal democracies?
What difference Has Telemedicine Made?
In 2020, Medicare patients receiving care at health systems in the highest quartile of telemedicine use had 2.5 telemedicine visits per person, compared with 0.7 telemedicine visits per person in the lowest quartile of telemedicine use.
Source: Edited from “Medicare Utilization, Spending, And Quality, 2019–22” in Health Affairs.
Monday Links
- How we benefited from the 2017 (Trump) tax cuts.
- Two (pandemic-related) doomsday predictions that never happened: a child care crisis and women leaving the labor force because of lack of child care and paternity leave.
- Another (Covid-related) doomsday prediction that never happened: one-in-ten- Americans are at risk of being evicted.
- Raw milk is dangerous; so why are sales surging?
- Kamala explains inflation: “Because of the Inflation Reduction Act … we are dropping trillions of dollars on the streets of America right now.”
- When donating blood is better than a payday loan.