- Socialized medicine by stealth: Medicaid rolls during the pandemic have swelled by 24 million—a 34% increase—while two million more adults have enrolled in ObamaCare exchange plans.
- Were Democrats being “racist” when they left 2.2 million (disproportionately Black) poor people without health insurance while giving subsidies to high-income (disproportionately white) people. This is consistent with the history of social insurance.
- Covid Vaccine backlash: “10 percent of those vaccinated said they wish they hadn’t done so, while 15 percent of adults said they have been diagnosed with a new condition by a medical practitioner weeks or months after the first dose.”
- Study: Mandatory paid sick leave reduces ER visits. If so, employers and employees should be able to voluntarily adopt it until the marginal benefit equals the marginal cost. Duh!
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Tuesday Links – 16 August 2022
- Public-health communication around monkeypox has been an orgy of euphemism and wokespeak, misleading and baffling if you don’t understand what isn’t being said.
- Kids going crazy: “Between 2016 and 2020, there were significant increases in children’s diagnosed anxiety and depression.”
- Financial therapy integrates financial and emotional wellness. But is it health care?
- Birx: pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Moderna are to blame for thousands of deaths because their refusal to pursue a “compassionate use authorization” for the COVID-19 vaccines led to a delay which directly impacted nursing home residents.
Monday Links
- Because of a “Covid Emergency,” 150 members of the house were able to vote remotely on the IRA bill.
- Are progressives trying to destroy San Francisco’s status as “the best food city in the country”?
- Is hearing loss justification enough to end your life? Canada arguably has the world’s most permissive euthanasia rules.
- Why is Bill Kristol attacking Herschel Walker because he sought mental health care?
- Does it matter what time of day you take your meds? Apparently.
Is Government to Blame for Europe’s Lack of Air Conditioning?
This summer’s heat wave is scorching Texas and much of the United States. It has also led to record temperatures in places like the United Kingdom where it reached 104 degrees in July. The UK is currently bracing up for another week of hot weather. Temperatures have been high across Europe. Paris is currently frying which is not uncommon in July and August.