- “You can very clearly halve your children’s risk of schizophrenia through polygenic selection, which costs only a few hundred dollars if you’re already doing IVF…. In a decade or two you can probably eliminate the risk entirely.”
- Roughly 90 percent of Americans are effectively blocked from opening an HSA.
- How to create HSAs in the Obamacare Exchanges. (National Review)
- Americans who trust the government to do the right thing most of the time: 10% Elites: 79% Super Elites: 89%. Maybe that’s because the elites run the government.
- What the future holds for weight loss drugs. (Bloomberg)
- Have economists oversold the idea of “moral hazard”?
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- The term “neoliberalism” was coined by Nazi intellectuals as a term of derision. However, I don’t think the term is a bad one to describe modern classical liberals.
- Next big legal issue: would a reasonable physician have followed (or departed from) a guideline generated by ChatGPT or Genesis…..
- Moderate income families get more than four times as much help from the government in the Obamacare exchanges as they get for the same insurance obtained at work.
- The latest oral tobacco craze is probably something you probably have never heard of: Zyn. Apparently. It is much healthier than cigarettes.
- Biden’s CMS targets red states (e.g., Florida Texas and Missouri) with burdensome new rules, while ignoring blue states (e.g., California).
Friday Links
- Senators propose to remove barriers to telemental health services for Medicare beneficiaries.
- Bidenomics: The typical American household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain the same standard of living they enjoyed in January of 2021.
- Thanks to a Trump initiative, if wait times for veterans do not meet an “access standard” (e.g., 20 days for primary care and mental health care and 28 days for specialty care), they may seek private sources of care. However, private wait times may be longer than VA wait times.
- A flexible spending account (FSA) or health savings account (HSA) likely won’t cover wearable devices like an Apple Watch or Fitbit, but blood pressure monitors, blood sugar test kits, thermometers, hearing aids and Oura rings—which monitor biometrics primarily focused on sleep—are typically eligible.
- Alex Tabarrok on how much regulation is needed in medical care.
Friday Links
- Regulations prohibiting price gouging during the Covid pandemic resulted in shortages leading to more social contact in crowded stores at the worst possible time—when social contact spreads a dangerous pathogen.
- The increase in US maternal mortality may not be real.
- Biden executive order: health insurers participating in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid or the Obamacare exchanges will need to respond to expedited prior authorization requests within 72 hours, and standard requests within seven calendar days.
- The world is getting older: In the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, total spending on long-term care is already more than 3% of GDP. In Japan and Korea more than 15% of the population is over 80.