- Deficit spending: Trump was bad, but Biden has been worse.
- Cause of inflation: Trump bears some blame, but again, Biden has been worse.
- “The Biden administration wants to throw a grenade into this carefully balanced ecosystem for research, development, and commercialization of a new medical technology.”
- We may be able to use CRISPR to treat rare inflammatory diseases.
Category: Health Insurance
Friday Links
- “You can very clearly halve your children’s risk of schizophrenia through polygenic selection, which costs only a few hundred dollars if you’re already doing IVF…. In a decade or two you can probably eliminate the risk entirely.”
- Roughly 90 percent of Americans are effectively blocked from opening an HSA.
- How to create HSAs in the Obamacare Exchanges. (National Review)
- Americans who trust the government to do the right thing most of the time: 10% Elites: 79% Super Elites: 89%. Maybe that’s because the elites run the government.
- What the future holds for weight loss drugs. (Bloomberg)
- Have economists oversold the idea of “moral hazard”?
Is Kamala Harris Calling for the Abolition of the FDA?
“In America, freedom is not to be given, not to be bestowed, but it is ours by right,” Harris said. “And that includes the freedom to make decisions about one’s own body, and not have the government telling people what to do.”
Mission Creep: Housing for Homeless is Another Medicaid Expansion
Some states have begun a novel experiment: diverting health care funds for housing assistance.
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans.
At last count nearly 40% of states – 19 so far – are diverting funds from Medicaid into housing assistance. The Biden Administration is encouraging others to follow.