- The US has cut carbon emission more than any other country.
- Colorado wants to be the first state to import drugs from Canada.
- Waste, fraud, and abuse in federal health care programs: over $130 billion per year in improper payments.
- Biden wastes billions on Covid boosters no one wants.
- Federal vaccine mandates cover more than 10 million Medicare and Medicaid employees, 84 million workers (through OSHA), federal contractors (one-fifth of the national workforce), 3.5 million federal employees, and Head Start employees, contractors, and volunteers.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Wednesday Links
- Less developed countries discover how to provide economical mental health care: use non-specialists.
- How reliable are patient online reviews at detecting physician and hospital quality? Not good.
- Is Obamacare’s free preventive medicine mandate unconstitutional? (WSJ)
- 94% of US residents have gotten Covid.
Pharmacist: That Prescription Will Cost You $3.5 Million!
A new record has been set for the highest price medication. The newly approved hemophilia drug Hemgenix.
Friday Links
- 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.