Recently I read about how people aged faster and looked older for their age back when I was young. It is not just because everyone looked old when we were kids. There are a variety of reasons for this, including better health, and a lower disease burden. And it was not just the poor who aged faster and whose life ended early, although wealth is generally associated with health.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Saturday Links – 11 April 2026
- The Democrat’s IRA bill is causing higher premiums for drug insurance and higher prices for drugs.
- New Yorkers can’t have robot cars because they threaten the jobs of taxi drivers.
- “The vast majority of academics ‘covering’ American health policy, and in charge of describing healthcare, are ideologues whose main goal is not to describe reality, but to fashion a story.”
- “Since the Gini coefficient of South Africa is about the same as the Gini coefficient of the world, South Africans are typically thinking about problems that are pretty close to the problems of the world as a whole.”
Friday Links – 10 April 2026
- Voting with their feet: the movement of people from Blue states to Red states.
- Blue states and Red states have essentially the same reading and math scores. But the Blue states are spending $7,000 more per student for the same results.
- Herbert Hoover’s food relief program saved as many as 4.4 million lives.
- Poll: 1 in 8 adults is taking GLP-1 drug for weight loss, diabetes, etc.
- Newsom’s request for federal Medicaid funds exceeds the entire budget of the state of Florida.
- How well weight loss drugs work may depend on your genes.
Thursday Links – 9 April 2026
- Roughly 36% of U.S. adults report using social media for health information.
- US drug prices vs. world prices.
- Spending on Part D Medicare prescription drug benefits will rise as much as $500 billion over a decade above earlier projections.
- The public agrees: fund patients, not health insurance companies.
- Beginning in 2030, cutting cancer deaths by 80% would save some 20 million to 30 million people over a 35-year period.
- “Waste, fraud, and abuse are not primarily the result of isolated bad actors but rather the direct, predictable, and inevitable consequence of flawed program design.”