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Category: Drug Prices & Regulations

Wednesday Links

Posted on December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • What made the snow storm so deadly for Buffalo?
  • How NEPA is strangling the economy.
  • Stanford, which has more employees than students, is telling its faculty and students what words to use.
  • Can health care be reformed the way Steve Jobs ran Apple?
  • Colorado is the fourth state seeking to import drugs from Canada.
  • North London man waits 7 hours for an ambulance after breaking his hip. (NYT)
  • British woman with agonizing back pain and numbness in both of her legs gets to the hospital 12 hours after calling an ambulance. It was another 2 hours wait before she could enter. (NYT)
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Tuesday Links

Posted on December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 by John C. Goodman

How Twitter suppressed information about Covid. I think I now understand why the mainstream media has been ignoring everything Elon Musk is releasing about Twitter. Everything that happened at Twitter was also happening at the NYT, CNN, WaPo, etc. A meta-analysis of 62 studies finds that narcissism is positively correlated with time spent on social media, frequency of…

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GOP Tax Cut Paid for Itself

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Pieter Vorster

The original Ryan/Brady tax reform bill was the brainchild of Larry Kotlikoff and Alan Auerbach and is described in this Goodman Institute report. Critics at the time said that the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 would produce an irresponsible increase in the federal deficit.

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Thursday Links

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Pieter Vorster
  • The Pasteur Act (apparently not in the Omnibus) would essentially pay for the development of new antibiotics in return for “free” use of subsequently invented drugs.
  • Does St John’s Wort have any health benefits?
  • Not in the omnibus bill: measures to strengthen the generic drug market. (InsideHealthPolicy: gated)
  • US life expectancy down more than two years since 2019.
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