- Claim from new paper, via Alex Tabarrok: “Prohibiting the FDA from regulating e-cigarettes reduced smoking attributable mortality by nearly 10% on average each year from 2011-2019 for a total savings of some 677,000 life-years, or approximately 1/3 the estimated benefit of early HIV/AIDS drugs through year 2000.”
- Results from California: a $20 minimum wage really does cause people to lose their jobs.
- What UnitedHealth executives get paid.
- NIH Director: Trump’s anti DEI directive does not prevent research on minority health problems.
- RFK Jr.’s “ban” on food dyes is actually “voluntary.”
Category: Policy & Legislation
NYT: Preventive Care Under Attack at Supreme Court
Whether or not it is a good idea to mandate preventive service is a worthy debate. The problem with mandates is that without hospitals and health plans competing on the basis of price, quality and other amenities, the services are likely to become worthless.
Tuesday Links
- More people are testing their own blood at home.
- Trump plans to end continuous open enrollment in ACA plans for some people. (Statnews)
- Arnold Kling compares Trump administration officials to characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
- “We now know the truth: opioids for acute pain can ignite a chain reaction that leads to dependence, chronic pain, disability, and even death.”
NYT: Trump Halts NIH Research Funding of the Effects of Climate Change on Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will stop funding research on the health effects of climate change. This was a blow to researchers who had hoped to enrich themselves while engaged in activism aligned with partisan research.