- Conventional wisdom holds that it takes 17 years from medical innovation to adoption in the real-world.
- Aaron Caroll on the market for prescription drugs.
- Once applicable to fewer than 500 covered entities, the 340B Program now consists of nearly 13,000 entities, including hospitals, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and nearly 30,000 contract pharmacies.
- Doctors are using problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day.
- Census Bureau: real median family income is lower today than it was in 2019.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
WSJ: Senators Want to Crack Down on Social Media Influencers Touting Drugs and Bogus Health Remedies
Have you noticed that drug commercials for debilitating diseases often end with healthy people going about their lives after taking the drug. Then, off camera a fast-talking man or woman rushes through a list of hideous potential side effects. The reason for the fast-talking narrator is because the list of major side effects and contraindications are required by law. Now a Senate Committee is up in arms that influencers on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, are touting weight-loss drugs for money but aren’t disclosing side effects.
Thursday Links
- 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.
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.