Nearly three-quarters of the net new jobs in June were in government, healthcare and social assistance. These industries also made up roughly half of the new jobs in May and more than 90% in April….
Source: WSJ Editorial Board
Category: Health Insurance
New Scientist: Immune Memory Cells are Responsible for Lifelong Allergies
Summer allergies are a thing, as are spring and fall allergies. Experts sometimes claim that allergies are our own immune system attacking us because we didn’t experience enough plant pollen and squalor as children by not growing up on subsistence farms.
Saturday Links
- Our species has been on earth for only about 300,000 years; but 2.6 million years ago, our pre-human ancestors were making stone tools. This sweep of history by Matt Yglesias is recommended
- Two things have grown dramatically over the past decade: the number of people with health insurance and the number of pharmacies getting discounted drugs because they service uninsured patients. The 340B program is costing Medicaid $32 billion a year – mainly because of perverse incentives.
- Positive and negative moods are contagious.
- Woman has a bionic arm and hand, “which she uses confidently to open containers, make morning coffee, water plants and put her clothes on hangers.”
Friday Links
- The Deputy Director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review declined the covid booster shot. Recommended
- 11% of all physicians in the United States and 25% of current medical students are osteopaths.
- Gen Z college students: mainly ignorant about the world.
- CBO: If Congress allows the Obamacare “enhanced subsidies” to expire next year, the population of uninsured will increase by only one percentage point.
- Capretta on the benefits of price transparency and the many reason it isn’t working very well.