- Capretta reviews the Einav/Finkelstein book: We’ve Got You Covered.
- Why should people get vaccinated for low-probability risks?
- Matt Ridley: The most lethal industrial or scientific accident that has ever occurred was the covid virus leak from the lab in Wuhan. So why does the scientific community refuse to discuss it?
- Only 14% of federal spending is “discretionary.” Eliminating the federal deficit would require eliminating all discretionary spending plus an 11% reduction in “non-compressible” expenditures (mandatory programs, defense, and interest on the public debt).
- Idaho having difficulty executing a prisoner. Whatever happened to the firing squad?
- There is a reason why the kakapo’s mating habits are so strange.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Wednesday Links
- How much does a black-market kidney cost? From $50K to $120K.
- More details on how covid information was censored.
- Our country’s ninth-largest export is blood.
- The Biden-Harris “infrastructure bill,” which authorized some $42 billion to expand high-speed connectivity to rural and inner-city areas, has hooked up approximately zero households to broadband service so far.
- What is wrong with the Harris proposals for small business?
- Kamala’s “health care “plan” … is 256 words long and consists largely of a recap of the Biden administration’s very limited accomplishments.
The British NHS Considers Many Drugs Too Costly to Cover
I recently read about British man who claimed that a new Alzheimer’s drug gave him his life back. When he began showing early signs of dementia his doctor recommended that he enroll in a clinical trial testing donanemab, an experimental Alzheimer’s drug. The man claimed he could tell the difference after he began taking it. Not discussed in the article is that after the clinical trial ends he will not be able to continue taking it unless he pays for it privately.
Tuesday Links
- Study: physician assisted suicide is at least the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada.
- It’s more common for people in rural areas to die earlier than urban residents from things like heart disease, cancer and stroke.
- If a doctor followed the preventive care checklist recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (services everyone is entitled to for free by Obamacare legislation) it would take 8.6 of the doctor’s hours each day – leaving no time to do anything else.
- 60% of baby and toddler food doesn’t meet nutrition standards.
- The US approach replaces more than 73 percent of pre-retirement earnings for average workers (with Social Security plus pension income), significantly higher than the OECD average of 55.3 percent.