- “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”?
Category: Health Insurance
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.
Monday Links
- Biden reverses course – reinstates Trump policies he initially cancelled.
- Why can’t you have a televisit with a doctor in another state?
- Cato is having an online forum on telehealth.
- “The program’s stated goal is to “raise the nutrition levels of low-income households,” yet 40 percent of adult SNAP (food stamp) recipients suffer from obesity and almost 45 percent have received a diagnosis of diet-related disease — far higher rates than the general population.”
- AEI against the House-passed tax bill: “A parent of multiple children with $20,000 of annual income would face an effective tax rate of 83 percent if they took a full-time job paying $40,000 per year.” But that’s because of the other means tested welfare benefits.