- The Risky Research Review Act would put guard rails around the ability of scientists to engage in gain of function research.
- Paragon has 12 reforms to federal healthcare spending that would curb spending by $2.1 trillion over 10 years.
- Two ways to boost the supply of transplantable organs.
- AEI on the need for legalizing the market for human organs.
- An unintended consequence of EOTC: when the credit is more generous, single adult daughters work more and spend less time on caregiving for their elderly parents. I am not against including care giving as a social useful activity under the EITC. I am against giving away money with no strings attached at all.
- US brand drugs sell for about three times what people pay in other countries; but US generics are one-third less than the prices abroad.
- Patients who think they are communicating with their doctors through MyChart could unknowingly be linking to a AI program called Art. If unedited by a human, Art’s responses risk serious harm about 7% of the time. (NYT)
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Thursday Links
- Asthma inhalers contribute to global warming?
- Three reasons you may not be able to get the generic drug you need.
- Republicans don’t want another fight over Obamacare. Too bad, it desperately needs reform.
- “The United States is not a manufacturing backwater…. The country has the second-largest share of manufacturing output – 15.9 percent – trailing only China at 31.6 percent.
- Washington DC now has the country’s richest rich people.
Wednesday Links
- “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Here is what that means today if you are covered by Centene, the largest provider of Obamacare insurance in the country.
- Why the British economy is stagnating: “It is difficult to build almost anything, anywhere.”
- Most anti-smoking drugs don’t work and the drug companies aren’t anxious to develop new ones. Overly strict FDA regulations are partly to blame. (STAT News)
- New York’s Covid tsar spent the pandemic preaching social distancing while attending raves and sex parties.
- “Healthcare is a centrally controlled market. It is both a monopoly—sole control of supply—and a monopsony—single determinant of demand.”
Tuesday Links
- The AMA says obesity is a disease. But the medical community has never provided a precise definition for obesity as a disease.
- The US does not have mini recessions. (Recommended)
- The per enrollee cost of Medicaid is higher than the average cost in employer plans in almost 20 states, sometimes by a considerable margin.
- Education fail: Not a single child tested proficient in math in 67 Illinois schools. For reading, it’s 32 schools. So, what have the Illinois legislature and Governor JB Pritzker done about it? They shut down the Illinois Invest in Kids Scholarship program that allowed kids to attend private schools.
- Cato: Lessons from covid.