- Funeral director sells body parts from more than 500 victims without family consent.
- Literature review: increased cost-sharing for drugs is associated with worse adherence, persistence, or discontinuation. Other effects are mixed.
- What happened to Southwest Airlines in a week, happens in health care all the time – especially at the height of the pandemic. (Exaggerating, of course)
- AMA study: Distrust of government is hazardous to your health.
- Scott Atlas: How universities suppressed scientific opinion during the pandemic.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
FDA: Pharmacies Can Stock Abortion Pills; Mailing Them is Also Legal, According to Justice Dept.
A few months ago, I was talking to an old colleague about the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. I was reminded of the abortion ships would anchor just off the coast of Ireland in 2001. Would something similar occur off the Southeast coast and Gulf Coast? I even wondered how states would police the U.S. Postal Service, which could deliver pills capable of resulting in abortions through the mail.
Wednesday Links
- Tyler Cowen explains why he is skeptical of the lead-causes-violence theory.
- Are 15 million Americans about to lose their health insurance?
- Report: there have been at least 275,000 claims submitted for dispute resolution with respect to payments to out of network providers during the first three quarters of 2022. Federal agencies were expecting 17,333 a year.
- In defense of Canadian Euthanasia.
- “Growing evidence suggests that repeated vaccinations may make people more susceptible” to a new covid variant. (WSJ)
Tuesday Links
- Tyler Cowen: 2022 was a great year for affirming the wisdom of classical economic theory.
- Debunking the benefits of exercise. (speculative)
- Researchers discovered more than half a million conspiratorial and misleading English languages tweets about covid. NYT still hasn’t discovered Elon Musk’s released tweets showing how Twitter censored good information and promoted bad. I guess you have to watch Fox News to know about that.
- The fact that we failed to notice 99.999% of life on Earth until a few years ago is unsettling and has implications for Mars. HT: Tyler
- Why did the IRA bill allow the free-food-for-kids program to expire, while extending tax subsidies for health insurance for the rich. (NYT) Answer: kids don’t vote.