- Dr. Francis Collins (Fauci’s boss) changes his tune: Covid-19 may have come from a Chinese lab.
- Just how much are the elites out of touch with the rest of America?
- Eleven states plus Washington, D.C. provide full health insurance coverage to more than 1 million low-income immigrants. regardless of their legal status.
- A review of more than 120 academic papers on Certificate of Need (CON) laws found that 89% of results were negative or neutral, and that negative effects were five times more common than positive effects.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Friday Links
- Regulations prohibiting price gouging during the Covid pandemic resulted in shortages leading to more social contact in crowded stores at the worst possible time—when social contact spreads a dangerous pathogen.
- The increase in US maternal mortality may not be real.
- Biden executive order: health insurers participating in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid or the Obamacare exchanges will need to respond to expedited prior authorization requests within 72 hours, and standard requests within seven calendar days.
- The world is getting older: In the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, total spending on long-term care is already more than 3% of GDP. In Japan and Korea more than 15% of the population is over 80.
Monday Links
- How political gridlock could kill the best global health program the US ever passed.
- The cost of Semaglutide, a medication used for treating type 2 diabetes and obesity, can range from $800 to $1,000 per month, on average. Since roughly 35% of Medicare patients are overweight or obese, Medicare spending is poised to go up by more than 17% overnight and stay at that level for a long time to come.
- The airlines lose 2 million bags a year.
- Fauci: no science behind the 6 ft distancing guideline.
- $5 trillion was spent on covid relief. The real increase in the federal debt was $5.8 trillion.
Friday Links
- South Carolina doctors see liberation in the repeal of certificate-of-need law.
- The case against the Schumer/McConnell/Johnson budget deal.
- Canada may not cooperate with Florida’s plan to import Canadian drugs for Floridians.
- Chatbots are beginning to pass the Turing Test.
- The case for psychedelics.
- The global death rate from extreme weather events has dropped by over 99% since 1920.
- Fauci before Congress said “I don’t not recall” more than 100 times.