- South Carolina doctors see liberation in the repeal of certificate-of-need law.
- The case against the Schumer/McConnell/Johnson budget deal.
- Canada may not cooperate with Florida’s plan to import Canadian drugs for Floridians.
- Chatbots are beginning to pass the Turing Test.
- The case for psychedelics.
- The global death rate from extreme weather events has dropped by over 99% since 1920.
- Fauci before Congress said “I don’t not recall” more than 100 times.
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Why the federal debt grows: Spending, not taxes, explains it all.
- Newsom extends free healthcare to 700,000 Illegal Immigrants, despite record budget deficit.
- What part of the health care system does not have any organized lobby in Washington? Patients.
- What is the rate of return on exercise in terms of life extension? 5.8%
- The US has higher health care prices that other countries, but it also delivers more care than any other country.
- Rising syphilis rates linked to lack of prenatal care.
Friday Links
- How UnitedHealth used secret rules to keep Medicare Advantage patients out of rehab.
- Former NIH director on lockdowns: You attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recovered.
- Medicare Advantage enrollment: As of 2021, 59% of Black Medicare beneficiaries, 67% of Hispanic beneficiaries, and 55% of Asian and Pacific Islander beneficiaries were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan as compared with 43% of White beneficiaries. Left out of the headline: These disparities mirror the same disparities found in traditional Medicare.
- Pandemic unemployment insurance benefits: Once they ended, the flow of people from unemployment to work increased by two thirds.
- How Medicare determines what it pays for medical care.
Friday Links
- Placebos seem to work even when patients know they are taking a placebo. HT: Tyler
- Sen. Blackburn tweets on the Goodman/Gossage WSJ editorial.
- Amy Finkelstein, et. al. find that Jeff Brenner’s “hot spots” experiment in Camden, New Jersey can’t be duplicated.
- House Republican health care legislation gets a few things right.
- AI discovers a new structural class of antibiotics. HT: Tyler
- An AI pendant worn around your neck grades you on your interactions with others and tells you how to improve.