- Economic Freedom index: the US has dropped to number 25.
- CMS drug negotiations: The private sector – without government intervention – negotiated drug savings that were more than triple the amount negotiated by the Biden Administration. Also, CMS, in showing off the results of its negotiations, calculated the discounted figures from the list prices of the 10 drugs, and not the prices at which they’re typically sold, which include rebates and discounts.
- As a senator, Kamala Harris sponsored what may be the most expansive and expensive social welfare bill ever introduced in Congress.
- How birds know where to migrate: quantum mechanics.
- What if, in the second half of the 20th century, there had been no decolonization? Argument: people living in the colonies would today be better off.
- Galt’s Gulch really exists — off the coast of Honduras.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Where Did All the Covid Relief Money Go?
Most absurd, nearly $2 billion of American Rescue Plan funds were earmarked for nonexistent county governments in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Source: Jacob Lane, Wall Street Journal
Bogus Research is Very Costly
Publishing one’s findings from research allows others to test the theories and build on them in future research. This collaborative approach often roots out bogus findings, but sometimes safeguards fail, and researchers are led down the wrong path.
Saturday Links
- What the classical thinkers thought about mental health.
- More than 300 hospitals are deploying or preparing to dispatch paramedics, nurse practitioners and other medical staff to treat patients at home instead of in hospital settings, a service widely referred to as hospital at home. They get paid the same hospital-stay rate. (WSJ)
- George Halvorson calls MedPac report “fake news.”
- More on diet and dementia. Study: an anti-inflammatory diet reduced the risk of developing dementia by 31 percent.
- 450 agents and brokers suspended for enrolling and switching people in exchange plans without their consent.
- Is RFK Jr right? Is a surge in chronic diseases, cancer, neurodevelopmental disorders, metabolic syndrome, and Alzheimer’s disease caused by Big Sugar, Big Ag, Big Pharma, and the cabal of government sycophants who do the bidding of their corporate sugar daddies?
- “Social capital” for individuals increases with market income and decreases with government transfer payments.