Early research to assess whether weight loss for its own sake is beneficial enough to require coverage has shown some health benefits. A new finding is that GLP-1 drugs reduce the cravings for drugs and alcohol as well.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Friday Links
- Tomas Philipson: Why price controls on Ozempic could make overall health care costs go up.
- No, millionaires and billionaire’s do not pay lower tax rates than school teachers.
- 35% of bachelor’s degrees from liberal arts colleges result in a negative ROI.
- “In dual-income households within the top socioeconomic quintile, only 29 percent of wives earn more than their husbands, whereas in the bottom quintile, an incredible 69 percent of wives out-earn their husbands.” HT: Arnold Kling
- Ways in which FDR was anti-Black workers.
Thursday Links
- Bill would allow you to get $50,000 if you give up your kidney.
- All there is to know about “suicide pods.”
- Survey: More than 90% of independent pharmacies may not sell Medicare Part D prescription drugs selected to undergo price negotiation.
- When Congress created Social Security (in 1935) with a retirement age of 65, average life expectancy was 61 for white men, 65 for white women, 51.3 for Black men, and 55.2 for Black women.
- Paragon’s Joel Zinberg on health policy issues in the election.
- Can RFK, Jr. “make America healthy again”?
Tuesday Links
- While you are sleeping, your brain is cleansing itself.
- Five signs of dementia other than memory loss. (NYT)
- How you are subsidizing the homes of the wealthy on Florida’s coast: The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which currently has underwritten more than 5 million policies, now issues 95% of all flood policies, and is $20 billion in debt.
- The Cass Report: “We have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.” Why is that controversial?
- Why is there a shortage of IV fluid?