- Grief is expensive. In addition to the significant human impacts, research shows that bereavement leads to a 20%-30% increase in health care utilization.
- The Trump administration is reportedly considering exempting physicians and medical residents from a newly imposed $100,000 fee for H-1B visa application.
- White House weighs exemptions on H-1B visa fees for physicians
- The welfare state destroyed the Black family.
- Jeffrey Singer: Let science not government decide about Tylenol.
- What Democrats want to keep the government open.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
NYT Discovers Social Security Clawbacks
When Rebekah Walker noticed she was short on her July rent, it quickly became clear that her monthly disability payment never arrived from Social Security, as it had for the past 16 years. The agency claimed in an online message that she had been overpaid by $48,609.60 — and she needed to pay it back. Until she could prove otherwise, she was cut off.
Source: A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain, New York Times.
Thursday Links
- Apple’s new smartwatch alert missed over half of hypertension cases in a clinical study. (Statnews)
- The FDA sent 75 cease and desist letters to drug companies over misleading TV ads.
- Arnold Kling on AI.
- When generics are included, Medicare and Medicaid pay on average 18 percent less per prescription than public programs in five other countries.
- There are 400 million people in the world with rare genetic diseases. Gene therapy might help them, but it’s too expensive. (NYT)
- Trump’s $100,000 tax on H1-B visas is a disproportionately unfair tax on small businesses and does not solve any real problem.
White House Linking Autism to Tylenol Causing Headaches
Last Monday President Trump held a news conference to advise pregnant woman to exercise extreme caution when taking… Tylenol. Yes, that over-the-counter pain reliever, also known by its generic name acetaminophen. The Leader of the Free World apparently had nothing better to do on a Monday than talk about an OTC pain reliever that was first synthesized in 1878 by a French scientist Henri Leroux.