- Kevin Corcoran pans The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean’s.
- RFK, Jr.: Trump administration, said there are “entire departments” within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that “have to go.”
- Regulatory burdens: Trump v. Biden.
- Voters reject legal weed.
Category: Policy & Legislation
Friday Links
- “Citi estimates that GLP-1 drugs could boost GDP by 0.5 percent to one percent in rich countries.”
- Why it’s become harder to extend life expectancy: Low hanging fruit is gone, now all we do is find ways to save old people for short periods of time so they just die of something else.
- “In 1940, the average worker retired at age 68 and had a much shorter life expectancy. If people retired today with the same remaining life expectancy as the 1940 retiree, they would retire at about age 77 on average.”
- Quality ratings for Medicare Advantage plans are misleading and unreliable. Ratings for ACOs are even worse.
Wednesday Links
- Evidence on the declining mental health of children and theories to explain that from Jonathan Haidt.
- Rochelle P. Walensky wins the Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award.
- Here are all the reasons she doesn’t deserve it.
- The media is misreporting what the IRA act actually did.
- How a Donald Trump presidency would change health care. (Included: Goodman Institute plan to revamp the Obamacare exchanges.) Statnews