- More women and young people are getting cancer, but the overall mortality rate has declined.
- Study: more than four in ten people will develop dementia after the age of 55 – with a lifetime cost of $415,936,
- My favorite headline of 2025: “You Can’t Trust The People Who Say They Hate Civilization To Run It.”
- In 2024 alone, the Biden presidency has cost the economy $1.4 trillion in new regulatory burdens.
- Goodman assesses the Biden presidency.
- Brookings saves Social Security with eat-your-spinach reforms: higher taxes and lower benefits.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
FTC Claims PBMs Jacking Up Drugstore Prices
Since I wrote about carving out Medicaid drug benefits versus carving in benefits the industry changed. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) began to consolidate to the point where the top three now control about 85% of the drug market. When three firms dominate an industry to that degree their behavior can go from benevolent (i.e. competing for business) to malevolent, self-dealing behavior.
Wednesday Links
- Top 10 flaws in mainstream reporting of the seed oil debate.
- Should Biden give Fauci a prophylactic Presidential pardon.
- Cato event: Can GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy be used to prevent substance abuse?
- Remember Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb? Over the past 60 years, humanity’s farmers went from feeding three billion people to feeding eight billion.
- In 2024, more than half of all jobs added were paid for with taxpayer dollars.
Vaccination Rates are Falling, Which Could Lead to Outbreaks of Long Conquered Diseases
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) vaccination is among the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th Century. Here is the problem: many people have stopped getting vaccinated.