- More young people are getting cancer.
- FDA gives up in its battle against ivermectin.
- Adultery is a crime in New York. (And you don’t get a jury trial.)
- US life expectancy is rising again. HT: Tyler.
- Future deficit spending may be worse than what the CBO is projecting.
- For the first time since the Black death, the world’s population is set to decline.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Saturday Links
- The U.S. is no longer among the top 20 happiest countries.
- Saving lives with pig kidneys.
- Why is fetal tissue research so controversial?
- Liberating the pharmacists.
- Highest drug price ever: $4.25 million per treatment.
- Site neutrality (same fee regardless of where the procedure is performed) would save Medicare more than $3.7 billion over the next decade, and lower beneficiary co-payments by $40 a visit.
Should Patient Assistance Programs Count Towards Your Deductible (should they even be legal?)
Demand curves are downward sloping. There I said it! It’s apparently controversial to many public health advocates and Members of Congress. All the while, supply curves slope upward. If you don’t know what I’m talking about you should not have slept through your Econ 101 class in college. You can boil this down to “people buy less when prices rise” and “incentives matter.”
Wednesday Links
- “We estimate the costs of lockdowns were at least 10 times higher than the public health benefits. Fewer than 10.000 lives were saved but hundreds of thousands of lives were lost, while the economic and educational losses are in the multiple trillions of dollars.”
- For $500,000, you can have a meal in space.
- A Republican bill would ban DEI in medical schools: No racist teaching; no racial discrimination; no loyalty oaths; and no DEI offices. (WSJ)
- Viagra could be good for your brain.
- During the pandemic, Paxlovid was free — courtesy of the federal government. Now it cost $1,600.
- Why is Oprah Winfrey shilling for Eli Lilly?