- What if Purdue Pharma and OxyContin are not really guilty as charged?
- What the Chevron decision means.
- Your doctor bills Medicare for your surgery. But was he really the surgeon? (WaPo)
- The Heritage plan for a Second Trump term. Outlaw pornography? Say it ain’t so.
- What happens when doctors can’t get the cancer drugs their patients need because of shortages.
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New Scientist: Is America Becoming Addicted to New Addictions?
Checking email on your phone when you’re waiting at the doctor’s office is not an addiction, but it can be taken to an extreme. Research has found people tend to become anxious when separated from their smartphone. Other research takes for granted that smartphones can become an addiction. Indeed, my wife often claims young people are addicted to their phones.
Saturday Links
- What happens when whistleblowers reveal what appears to be medical malpractice associated with “gender affirming care”? The government goes after the whistleblowers.
- More on AI and rural health. (STAT)
- New NBER paper: “Our calculations indicate that currently proposed U.S. policies to reduce pharmaceutical prices, though particularly beneficial for low-income and elderly populations, could dramatically reduce firms’ investment in highly welfare-improving R&D.”
- Could quitting your job actually help the economy?
- Steuerle: “Never in U.S. history has there been so much growth in debt scheduled in current law from past legislation.”
- BMJ publication bias during covid: very one-sided and on the wrong side of history.
- Feds seek delay in releasing covid safety data.
- Do good-looking people live longer?
WSJ: PBMs Charge More for Mail-Order Drugs Than Prices at Local Pharmacies
Some seniors order drugs from abroad to save money. A few states are even considering mail-ordering cheaper drugs from Canada for state employees. Every employer cannot order drugs from Canada, however. There are just not enough drugs in Canada to serve their own population along with 100 million Americans with employee health coverage.