- Gingrich: Goodman Institute is right on eliminating waste.
- Why we had a baby boom.
- Betsy DeVos: “Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent well more than $1 trillion to schools with the express purpose of closing the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as they have ever been, and by many measures, even wider.”
- Forever chemicals: “No one has figured out how to destroy the compounds, whose fluorine-carbon bond is the single most stable in organic chemistry, at scale.”
- Why is the CDC sitting on three bird flu studies?
- A Medicaid block grant would save $670 billion over 10 years.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Friday Links
- There is a long history of presidents not spending all of the money Congress has authorized.
- Traditional Medicare enrollees receive more high-risk medications than Medicare Advantage enrollees.
- Steuerle: to find waste in government, ask the employees.
- Controversial Super Bowl ad that attacks other drug companies for their weight loss drugs.
- Cato: is public health a danger to our health?
Nurse Practitioners are a Recent Invention; Founder Dies at 104
It’s easy to forget that seeing an NP was not common until the past 20 years or so. The first NP students enrolled in 1965. It took between 30 to 40 years before NPs gained the authority to do more than work as glorified nurses.
Thursday Links
- Pharma: Medicare drug price negotiation could slow the search for a cure for cancer.
- Economic freedom is positively correlated with civic virtue.
- Countries with the highest economic growth rates have the lowest birth rates.
- Epidemiologists now estimate that 40 percent of cancers, and a similar share of cancer deaths, can be attributed to risk factors that people can control.
- Why we don’t actually need USAID.