When the Senate set about confirming Dr. Makary, the view was that Trump had appointed a qualified, talented, noncontroversial commissioner. Yet, the mood inside the FDA turned sour immediately, although this was not necessarily Makary’s fault.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
We can’t afford to let Democrats lead health care ‘reform’
The battle over Big Insurance is only beginning. If Republicans fail to lead, Americans may once again be left with Democrats’ same failed formula: more bureaucracy, more complexity and less control.
Monday Links – 11 May 2026
- “…it looks like Europeans have been selected for higher IQ, higher educational attainment, and less schizophrenia and bipolar disorder over the last 10,000 years.”
- What AI threatens to do to published scholarly journal articles.
- Questions science has not yet answered: Lightning (how does it happen?) and quite a few more.
- Half of U.S. adults under 50 are now getting health and wellness information from influencers or podcasters.
- Dementia affects one in ten adults over he age of 65. Half of them die in nursing homes.
Saturday Links – 9 May 2026
- How AARP profits from rising Medicare costs.
- Biggest wealth transfer in US history.
- New PEW results: 40 percent of Americans — and half of adults under the age of 50 — get medical and/or wellness information from social media accounts
- Trump loosens restrictions on foreign doctor immigrants.
- Steuerle: Why the US has so much debt.
- In covert tests, TSA has done poorly. Testers reportedly got mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 67 of 70 tests, a 95% failure rate.