- Poll: Americans overwhelming support polygenic embryo selection for serious disease, but by 45% to 35% oppose selecting for IQ.
- How the father’s diet affects the health of the descendants.
- Why do the richest states get the most Medicaid money?
- Why are so many scientists around the world engaged in “gain of function” research? Because they can get money to do it.
- Why progressives should support free trade.
- Cato study: Occupational licensing disproportionately burdens minority workers.
Category: Health Insurance
Gain of Function, Loss of … Everything Else
It did not have to be this way. The COVID-19 pandemic cost American citizens their lives, their livelihoods, education, mental health, reputations and, ultimately, civil and religious freedoms. “The U.S. accounts for less than 5% of the world’s population, but more than 25% of total COVID-19 cases reported across the globe, and it currently ranks among the top 10 countries in COVID-19-related deaths per capita,” wrote the authors of 2023 commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And for all that, we have government to thank.
Simple Blood Test May Predict Disease: Will that Make People Healthier?
New research has identified proteins, found in a single drop of blood, that may hold clues to our health and the diseases we’re likely to develop years into the future.
Medicare and Wegovy
A report by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) estimates that treating even half of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with obesity would cost $166 billion per year, nearly the cost of total spending on all prescription drugs in 2022 ($175 billion).
Source: STAT (gated)