- CBO: Social Security and Medicare to become insolvent in the next 10 years.
- Disappointing discovery: ChatGPT is politically biased.
- FDA Commissioner Robert Califf: Low Generic Prices Can Lead to Drug Shortages. (InsideHealthPolicy – gated)
- Florida Surgeon General issues an alert on adverse events connected to Covid vaccines.
- Reasons to have more sex: it reduces pain, relieves stress, improves sleep, lowers blood pressure and strengthens heart health. (NYT)
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Is big city noise a health hazard?
- The United States and New Zealand are the only two countries that allow drugmakers to market directly to consumers.
- Could a 5th Circuit ruling that “perpetual funding” of government agencies or programs is unconstitutional threaten Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid?
- How to treat a cold.
- The cost of obesity: $2,505 in extra medical costs every year – with the number rising with the extent of obesity.
- Hispanic health paradox: Hispanics have higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality and less mental illness.
Friday Links
- Florida now has more jobs than New York. That’s likely because Florida avoided the NY lockdown approach to the pandemic.
- Mainly because of health care commitments, the federal government will exhaust its ability to borrow in the next 25 to 50 years. Technical paper here.
- The case for ending the Covid emergency now.
- If Social Security makes a mistake and overpays you, they can come after you to reclaim the money – no matter how much or how long ago the mistake occurred. But if you make a mistake in not claiming all the SS or Medicare benefits you are entitled to, you generally can’t correct your mistake — even if it is caused by bad advice from government personnel. See Robbery by Red Tape.
- This is priceless: After asking a question and getting a dumb answer, the user re-prompted GPT with “how would a super-smart AI answer this question?” He then got a smart answer.
- Cato study: Obamacare increased low‐hours, involuntary parttime employment by 500,000 to 1 million workers, in retail, accommodations, and food services.
Friday Links
- 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.