- Biden v. Trump on Covid
- With symptoms, a colonoscopy is costly. Without symptoms, the test is free. The same thing is true of mammograms. It’s Obamacare.
- The healing power of music
- The Gates foundation achieved a remarkable reduction in childhood deaths in the middle of a war zone in Mali.
- Stats on Florida v California for people who care about the DeSantis/Newsom debate.
- An unflattering recap of the life of Henry Kissinger.
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- How wasteful is traditional Medicare? Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring spending generated $24–$29 in government savings.
- Drug approval times around the world.
- The new Ai Pin sounds intriguing. But what will it do for health care?
- Who needs a doctor’s office, if you can get care from a kiosk in a shopping mall?
Friday Links
- Competition for primary care: Amazon is charging $9 a month for an unlimited number of virtual visits.
- Federal outlays: we spend four times as much on adults as we spend on children.
- Vaping is “turning millions of young people into addicted customers.”
- Would coverage for gene therapies make employer-based health insurance unaffordable?
- Thinner women end up with richer husbands.
- Survey: there has been a dramatic decline in public trust in scientific and medical expertise from before the covid pandemic to today.
Friday Links
- Even moderate drinking can interfere with your sex life.(NYT)
- Medicare is spending $800 million a year on stents that are unnecessary and put patients at risk of complications like stroke, heart attack and death.
- Yglesias takes a critical look at the idea that non-pharmaceutical Covid interventions didn’t work.
- Scott Atlas: What to do in the next pandemic.
- Trump’s plan to bring back mental institutions for the homeless is serious.
- Why is the MSM ignoring 400 American “hostages” in Gaza?