- 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.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
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.
Saturday Links
- The pitfalls of state health care reform. (Dated but still relevant.)
- A 65-year-old couple with average life expectancy and average household income (about $90,000 in 2023) retiring in 2025 will require $1.34 million to finance their Social Security and Medicare benefits, even though they paid only $720,000.
- Scott Sumner: “Almost every time I see an expert interviewed on the macroeconomy, they suggest that a substantial portion of the inflation over the past 5 years has been supply side. That’s wrong; none of it has been supply side. I’d go even further; essentially none of the inflation over the past 50 years has been supply side.”
- As if you didn’t already know, rent control doesn’t work.
- Nearly one in ten doctors in the United States are employed by United Health.
- The difference in brain structure between conservatives and liberal is less than previously thought.
- Why is it so difficult to get a live human on the phone to make an appointment with a real doctor?