- Cosco is offering virtual checkups for $29. Third party insurance not accepted.
- Headline: Pharma would lose loyal ally if Menendez leaves Senate. If he is so loyal, why didn’t he stop the IRA bill?
- Frequently wrong, New York Times covid reporter Apoorva Mandavilli will lecture at Harvard (alongside former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot).
- The more governments intervene to protect workers, the more unemployment there is.
- Why hospital consolidation is hurting patients and what can be done about it.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
House W & M to Mark up Two HSA Bills
Here is a quick summary, courtesy of Dan Perrin, of how the House Ways & Means Committee will mark up two HSA Bills.
Wednesday Links
- The new Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are formulated to a particular variant that is currently giving rise to only 3% of covid infections.
- Paragon: “We estimate the ACA led to only 1.6 million more Americans with private health insurance despite $60 billion in annual subsidies — an … annual cost of roughly $36,800 for each additional private-insurance enrollee.”
- Neanderthal DNA in modern humans has been linked to serious hand disease, the shape of people’s noses and various other human traits.
- Study: People with positive beliefs around getting older lived seven and a half years longer than those who felt negatively about it. (NYT)
The New York Times (and the FDA) Does a Hatchet Job on Regenerative Medicine
The New York Times did a hatchet job on regenerative medicine. A visiting researcher at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and other surgeons had performed numerous surgeries using BioBurst, a processed umbilical cord fluid, to help fuse together bones in minimally invasive surgeries. The fluid was administered to reduce healing time and reduce the need for more invasive back surgery.