- Can skipping meals give you a longer, healthier life?
- Why low-skilled immigration helps the economy.
- Q & A on “suicide clusters,” an abnormal increase in suicides (usually among teenagers) in a short period of time. Good questions; disappointing answers.
- Parents can use IVF to select the sex of their baby. That’s illegal in almost every other country.
- Can mental health counselling make kids worse off?
- Could your personalized AI be called on to testify against you?
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Wednesday Links
- The case for value -based drug pricing.
- The costs of mask wearing: To be exempted from a three-month mask mandate, the average person was willing to pay $525, and some (0.9%) were willing to pay over $5,000.
- Are prisons turning into de facto nursing homes?
- Are scientists trying to cure sickle cell disease through gene editing doing so by using the genomes of white Europeans?
- Health risk assessments — typically in-home reviews of enrollees’ health status – add as much as $12 billion in risk adjusted payments to Medicare Advantage plans.
Are Schools Too Worried about Teen Mental Health?
Most days my mood is good but occasionally I’m less motivated than others. My wife has moods similar to mine. Some days she has more energy than others. For that matter, my dog seems to feel better some days than others. This all sounds normal to me, but do we really need mental health intervention? Or are small day-to-day variations in mental wellbeing normal in healthy individuals? Furthermore, does ruminating on feeling a little sluggish make matters better or worse?
Tuesday Links
- Some 23 million households receive broadband subsidies, which is more than the number on food stamps.
- Latest Covid vaccine study: the vaccine has no benefits for children or for healthy adults. There are adverse risks. This is based on the largest study to date – covering 99 million people.
- Upcoding explained.
- Between 2014 and 2020, the death rates for Black children and teenagers rose by about 37 percent, and for Native American youths by about by about 22 percent — compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
- Trustees Update: The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted in 2036, and the combined Social Security trust fund will become exhausted in 2035.