- Scientists estimate that tens of trillions of viruses live inside of us. (NYT)
- The US would have had 1.6 million fewer deaths if it had managed covid the way Sweden did.
- Between 2019-24, the EU approved 13,000 new laws and regulations while the U.S. imposed 5,500.
- The United States imports roughly one-fifth of its pharmaceutical preparations by dollar value from China and India combined.
- Marco Rubio: After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Friday Links
- Does it matter that Musk is a ketamine user?
- Zeke Emanuel on what’s wrong with how doctors are paid. (I normally disagree with Zeke, but this article is quite good.)
- Trade between the United States and the European Union represents around 30 percent of global trade.
- The Economist: The Democrats still don’t know what hit them.
- Yours Truly: I psychoanalyze the Democrats.
“Jay Bhattacharya Was Right, and Francis Collins Wrong.”
Thursday Links
- Estimates of the percentage of Medicare costs that arise from patients in the last year of life range from 13% to 25%, with the latest estimates tending toward the higher number.
- RFK Jr. has become pro-vaccine.
- “Under the TCJA, each income group received a tax cut, but the highest-income groups received the smallest cuts relative to their total tax burden.”
- Less than half of Medicaid recipients work enough to comply with a work requirement.
- Ken Thorpe on why the IRA bill could hurt chronic patients.
- It’s been a long time since we have seen an execution buy firing squad. (WaPo) I’ve always thought it is the manly way to go.
Wednesday Links
- “The U.S. recently surpassed the unfortunate milestone where all new federal revenue is already committed to specific spending priorities set in the law. Before Congress even appropriates a dime, the revenues have already been spent.”
- What’s wrong with the British economy: “The nation is gripped by laws and customs that make essentials unacceptably scarce and drive up the cost of construction across the board.”
- Why doesn’t health insurance typically cover sensor-based measures, collecting data from wearables and smart technologies, often continuously and outside the clinic?
- Trump defunds the Obamacare navigators. Beverly Gossage on the defunding:
Why pay unlicensed navigator associations that hire people with no insurance background to “help” people sign up with Obamacare when there are over 100,000 agents nationwide who are licensed, regulated, and ,,, who could do a better job of assisting them — with no tax payer dollars spent to fund them.