- Poll: Americans overwhelming support polygenic embryo selection for serious disease, but by 45% to 35% oppose selecting for IQ.
- How the father’s diet affects the health of the descendants.
- Why do the richest states get the most Medicaid money?
- Why are so many scientists around the world engaged in “gain of function” research? Because they can get money to do it.
- Why progressives should support free trade.
- Cato study: Occupational licensing disproportionately burdens minority workers.
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- What health policy proposals are in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025? (1) Medicare Advantage will be the default option for Medicare enrollees, (2) site neutral payments by Medicare, (3) replace the physician fee-for-service system with value-based payments and (4) physician owned hospitals.
- Is the Republican Party becoming more anti-trade and anti-legal immigration?
- “I estimate that the combined losses to tenants and housing providers of a typical [Joe Biden type] rent control policy would be over $50 billion per year.”
- Biden’s rent control proposal changed from a cap of 5% annual rent increases to a cap of $55 – presumably because he had trouble reading the prompter.
- More horror stories from the British National Health Service.
Friday Links
- Pharmacist admits he routinely ships medication for Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia to members on Capitol Hill.
- Zvi Mowshowitz on the Hanson/Alexander debate over the value of health care spending.
- Scott Sumner on how regulation lowers our standard of living.
- WSJ: Medicare paid Medicare Advantage (MA) plans $50 billion for untreated ills.
- Douglas Holtz Eakin: net overpayments in the MA program are small and they are three times worse in traditional Medicare.
- Casey Mulligan: Why raising the price of opioids may cause people to consume more of them.
Friday Links
- The Deputy Director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review declined the covid booster shot. Recommended
- 11% of all physicians in the United States and 25% of current medical students are osteopaths.
- Gen Z college students: mainly ignorant about the world.
- CBO: If Congress allows the Obamacare “enhanced subsidies” to expire next year, the population of uninsured will increase by only one percentage point.
- Capretta on the benefits of price transparency and the many reason it isn’t working very well.