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Category: Friday Links

Friday Links

Posted on November 25, 2022November 24, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Launch price for a course of treatment for Type 1 diabetes approaches $200,000. We predicted the IRA bill would lead to higher launch prices. But even we are shocked by this one.
  • Anthony Fauci to be deposed in a lawsuit against the federal government for allegedly colluding with social media companies to censor speech.
  • Hospital care at home: outcomes are actually better, but it’s scheduled to go away when the (Covid) public health emergency goes away. (NYT)
  • Rare and unusual Covid side effects: hairy tongues, purple toes, welts that sprout on the face, and more. (NYT)
  • “Apparently, to the people that write [CDC] guidelines, more people dying of COVID is less of a concern if the deaths are more racially balanced.”
  • Over half of Covid deaths are among people who have been vaccinated.
  • Scotland is considering these reforms to the National Health Service:

An option to “Pause funding of new development/drugs” unless they can be proved to save the NHS money… Stopping care services altogether and instead sending patients home for care.

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Friday Links

Posted on November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • India makes 60% of global vaccines and 20% of global generics. But how safe are they? (NYT)
  • Some brokers use deceptive practice to sell Medicare Advantage plans to seniors. (NYT)
  • When pulse oximeters give false reading, people die.
  • Does Google discriminate against Republicans?
  • Why does fentanyl kill so many people?
  • Tyler Cowen defends Elon
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Friday Links

Posted on October 28, 2022October 27, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Will a Republican House of Representatives impeach Joe Biden?
  • For missile defense.  HT: Tyler
  • How China could take Taiwan – beginning with a blockade – and get into a war with the US?
  • The average cost of family coverage in employer plans: $22,463.
  • Gender affirming care: In 2021, around 42,000 kids between 6 and 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria. At most, around 7,000 a year initiate some kind of potentially irreversible process. This comes out to about 1 in 7,000 kids.
  • As many as 43,000 American die every year because they can’t find a kidney donor. One reason:  in 1984 Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act, which banned the sale of organs.
  • Bill Barr: 1% of the population commits between one-half and two-thirds of predatory violent crime. (WSJ)
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Friday Links

Posted on October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 by John C. Goodman
  • Tyler Cowen compares Classical Liberalism with the New Right.
  • The nation’s capital now has an estimated 120 homeless tent cities and their growth shows no signs of slowing down.
  • Uber Eats to deliver marijuana in Canada.
  • More details on the lab-created (and much more dangerous) omicron virus. Are scientists playing Russian roulette?
  • ARPA is the protégé of DARPA – aimed at game changing innovations in medicine.
  • Our health care data infrastructure is broken. What difference does that make?
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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.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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