- Mark Pauly, et. al.: expensive brand name drugs are worth more than what we are paying for them.
- Study: the biggest losers from the (Obamacare) Medicaid expansion: low-income children.
- Should the homeless be forcibly moved to mental institutions?
- More on Ivermectin.
- A woke Hippocratic oath demonstrating that some of the worse political thinking in the modern era comes from doctors.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Saturday Links
- Pew Foundation “striking findings.”
- In addition to drug shortages, the US has been experiencing medical device shortages.
- Free covid tests by mail are back.
- CNN: Covid-19 vaccines have saved more than 3 million lives in US. But no mention of Donald Trump or Operation Warp Speed. CTUP: this is like trumpeting the polio vaccine and not mentioning Jonas Salk.
- A defense of Canadian euthanasia: The average age of those who seek assisted death is 76.3, and 65% have cancer.
- All the bad things in the Hippocratic Oath that I bet you don’t know about.
Tuesday Links
- Snakebites are worse than we thought: They kill between 81,000 and 138,000 people each year, and leave another 400,000 with permanent disabilities.
- Contra PhARMA: Profit growth at the largest pharmaceutical companies—driven by price hikes on older, branded, monopoly drugs—rarely leads to the development of innovative new medicines, according to a FREOPP study.
- Heritage study: The federal government spent $279 billion of taxpayers’ money on improper payments in 2021 alone. That is more than $2,000 per U.S. household.
- Does coffee drinking increase your life expectancy? Or, do we never seem to tire of bad studies?
Cato Health
- Cops practicing medicine: Government and law enforcement increasingly surveil and influence the way doctors treat pain, psychoactive substance use, and substance use disorder.
- Its time to free the birth control pill: Allow OTC sales.
- Free the nurses: They can provide excellent primary care services.