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Category: Friday Links

Friday Links

Posted on January 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Reason (magazine) investigation: CDC used Facebook to silence Covid dissent.
  • More than 1,000 nursing homes reached a 75% infection rate during the Covid pandemic.
  • For: more off label uses of existing drugs.
  • IRA bill is already affecting drug development – negatively.
  • What it will cost to attend this year’s Super Bowl game: almost $9,000.
  • The Manchin/Capito Trust Act would force Congress to do what it doesn’t want to do: Tackle our unfunded entitlement liabilities.
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Friday Links

Posted on January 6, 2023January 5, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • DOJ: Postal service can deliver abortion pills.
  • NIH-funded food pyramid says lucky charms are better than steak; chocolate covered almonds are better than cheddar cheese.
  • Pro-choice argument: the FDA’s step forward on abortion medications is not nearly good enough.
  • The European Union bans 1,300 ingredients from use in cosmetics. The US bans 11. (NYT)
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Friday Links

Posted on December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • The federal government approved about $5 trillion in total pandemic relief money; the amount lost to fraud could reach the $250 billion to $560 billion range.
  • At-home, rapid antigen tests that let you test for COVID, Influenza, and RSV all at once are widely available in Europe. But you can’t have one because they have not been approved by the FDA.
  • Small rural hospitals got pummeled by the pandemic in 2022.
  • Not only did the members of Congress not read the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, more than half didn’t even show up to vote. They voted by proxy.
  • Pharma study: pharmacy benefit managers and health insurers are ripping off patients.  Why didn’t they release this before the election?
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Friday Links

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Pieter Vorster
  • Study: Up to 31.6 percent of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments (intended to support hospitals that serve low-income patients) have gone to hospitals that do not care for very many low-income patients.
  • “Tripledemic” news stories are just hype.
  • California medical school admits it experimented on prisoners in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • Hospital donors get VIP treatment and jump the queue when they need medical care. (NYT) Is anyone surprised by this? Is there anything wrong with it?
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

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