- California is making its own insulin.
- The two leading covid origin theories — lab leak and Wuhan wet market — could both be true.
- An electronic tattoo can track your emotions.
- UT Austin has invented a version that fits on your palm.
- Three out of four Florida kids are in a school of choice that is different from their assigned local school.
Category: Policy & Legislation
Monday Links
- FREOPP: Switzerland leads the world in health care innovation.
- Misspending and fraud in pandemic relief may be as high as $400 billion. Can we get the money back?
- IRS: You can use your HSA, HRA or FSA to pay for a gym membership, so long as you doctor “prescribes” the membership, say, for weight loss.
- Biden supports “gender affirming” pediatric care.
- New and more rigorous study: Women who married had a 35% lower risk of death for any reason, lower risk of cardiovascular disease, less depression and loneliness; and they were happier and more optimistic, and had a greater sense of purpose and hope.
- EVT is creating radically better outcomes for stroke victims, but only a handful of hospitals offer it. Telemedicine helps. (NYT)
Feds Want to Make School Kids Eat Healthy Food or Go Hungry
The Feds are coming for kids chocolate milk. Also, other school menu items that school kids will actually eat. Teachers, parents, school cafeteria cooks, school nutritionists and kids are in an uproar over a policy decision so dire that it might cause school kids to go hungry and thirsty.
Can’t Find a Doctor Who Takes Medicare, Medicaid or Obamacare? Blame Congress (and the AMA)!
Imagine spending most of your life preparing to be a doctor. You get straight As in high school and college. You are accepted to medical school and four years later you graduate with a Doctor of Medicine degree. Your training is not over, however. Medical school graduates must go through a residency training program, which is a requirement to practice medicine in all 50 states. Not all medical graduates will be accepted into residency. In other words, the National Resident Matching Program (Match) is a game of musical chairs, where the losers lose not only their seat but often their career.