- Why do GLP-1 receptor agonist medications (e.g., Ozempic) — already FDA-approved to treat diabetes and obesity – appear to cure almost all diseases?
- Research finds they’re effective against stroke, heart disease, kidney disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, alcoholism, and drug addiction.
- The upside of having fewer children: “When birth rates go down, societies often invest more in education and training for each child. This means that even with fewer people, you end up with a workforce more capable of coming up with new ideas and technologies.”
- Mental health therapists in Chicago are being blacklisted if they are “Zionists.”
- Is the White House physician covering up Biden’s mental decline?
- The IRA bill will make the heavily flawed 340B program even worse.
Category: Health Insurance
Saturday Links
- Large randomized controlled trial (RCT) backs up traditional economic theory of minimum wage laws: fewer people are hired and there are fewer hours worked.
- RTC for guaranteed basic income: recipients worked less — household income decreased by 20 cents for every dollar they received.
- RCT providing $1,000 a month to homeless people: reduction in homelessness was not much different from the control group.
- Best explanation I have seen for why Imane Khelif of Algeria should not have been in women’s Olympic boxing.
- AAF pans the FTC report on PBMs.
- The new ability to conduct surgeries remotely with robots could be a boon to patients who live in under-doctored areas.
Nearly Half of Patients Receive a Surprise Medical Bill: What You Can Do
The No Surprises Act (NSA) went into effect on January 1, 2022. The federal law protects patients who are unknowingly treated by out-of-network physicians while seeking care at a hospital or clinic that is in-network with their health plan.
Tuesday Links
All human beings are 99.9 percent identical in their genetic makeup.
Humans share 98.8 percent of their DNA with bonobos and chimpanzees.
The US is the sixth-most expensive country in the world to build rapid-rail transit infrastructure like the New York City Subway, the Washington Metro, or the Chicago “L.” The five countries that are more expensive are doing a lot more tunneling.
High inflation disproportionately harms the poor.
Why are conservatives against no-fault divorce? Maybe they enjoy reading all the nasty things spouses say about each other when fault has to be established.
There were 379 deaths worldwide between 2008 and 2021 related to a person taking a selfie. That’s more than 4 times the number of people who died by shark bite in the same period.