- Prices that aren’t rising: drugs. In fact, they are falling.
- If global warming is bad for health, why do so few people die from excessive heat in India and Pakistan?
- BA.5 doesn‘t care if you’ve just had Covid-19.
- US men have the highest rate of avoidable deaths among developed countries. The Commonwealth Foundation blames capitalism.
- Paragon study: Insulin bill would raise costs, add to the federal deficit and hurt patients.
- Health care CEOs are doing well: more than 100 of them pulled in at least eight figures last year.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Thursday Links
- A death row inmate wants to donate a kidney. Texas won’t let him.
- How well does Paxlovid really work?
- Casey Mulligan and Joe Grogan defend PBMs. (WSJ)
- More on surprise bills: they occur in one in five emergency room visits and up to one in six in-network hospital stays.
- The Baduy, an indigenous group in Indonesia, have rejected vaccinations. Their Covid death toll: zero. (NYT)
- More on circadian rhythms: mice live longer if they eat on the right time schedule. (DMN)
Wednesday Links
- How an economist thinks about abortion. Well, at least one economist.
- Why is Google investing in health care?
- Is developing Covid vaccines a profitable venture for drug companies? “The answer is a resounding ‘no’. In fact, in most cases, developing mRNA vaccines for a portfolio of emerging diseases would be a money loser.”
- How common is prior authorization?
- Price controls on insulin: The (intended?) result will that be that consumers will pay more, diabetes complications will get worse, and incumbent manufacturers will make more money.
- Almost a quarter of Americans over the age of 18 are now medicated for one or more of these conditions. (HT: Tyler)
- Canada’s health care providers say their system is “collapsing.”
Will the Covid Emergency Ever End?
PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO It’s supposed to end on Friday. But the Wall Street Journal says that continued extensions are the left’s best way of expanding the welfare state. One reason is that in March 2020 Congress barred states from kicking ineligible people off Medicaid rolls during the emergency in return for more federal funding. Medicaid enrollment has ballooned to…