- Sex matters. (Although some people are claiming it doesn’t)
- Julian Assange gets a plea deal: no jail time from misuse of classified documents. Hmm. Isn’t this the same crime for which a special prosecutor is trying to send Trump to prison?
- The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is wrong: Biden not Trump, added more to our pubic debt than any other president in history.
- “Black youth were 10 times more likely to die by homicide than white youth, and Native American youth were twice as likely to die by suicide than white youth.” Recommended.
- Is it hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk? No.
- The uninsured share of the population will rise from 7.7% to 8.9 percent in 2034.
Category: Health Reform
Wednesday Links
- Study: Bans on flavored tobacco products don’t work.
- Are women taking over our health care system?
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There are 4.2 million nurses, over 1 million doctors, and over 1/2 million PAs and NPs in the US…. Women hold … 90% of all nursing positions, 66% of PAs, and 55% of all current Medical School slots.
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- NBER study: As hospital prices went up 1%, the percentage of people who ended up out of a job rose by 0.4% and payments for tax-funded unemployment insurance increased 2.5%.
- The total expense [of developing a new drug] is estimated at $1 billion on average. It takes 10 to 15 years. And nearly 90 percent of the candidate drugs that enter human clinical trials fail.
- Colorado wants to import drugs from Canada. Pharma is opposed.
NYT: Your Vet is Going High-Tech, and Expensive
Our dog Clementine is part of the family. (That’s her helping read her lab report. She’s a Golden Doodle rescue that spent her first year in Lake Tahoe before moving to Texas. She’s not a cheap date. She has three different veterinarians. She has a veterinary behaviorist for her mental health (she’s an odd dog). She also has a regular veterinarian for routine health needs, and we use a cheaper veterinary clinic housed in a Walmart for lab work and vaccinations. If we sound like overindulgent pet owners, we’re not alone according to the New York Times.
Tuesday Links
- Cost of extending Obamacare enhanced subsidies: CBO and the JCT estimates:
- Direct cost to taxpayer over the next 10 years: $383 billion.
- Increase in interest payments on the federal debt that would arise from the larger deficit: —$48 billion
- 31 percent of the total cost will go to individuals with incomes over 400 percent of the federal poverty level, including those making as much as $599,000 a year.
- Cost of subsidies to illegal immigrants would reach $11 billion.
- Singer: If opiates are killing Americans, why won’t the FDA approve alternatives that are available in other countries.
- Claim: Fasting can help with Type 2 Diabetes. (speculative)
- The cause of most global deaths: heart disease.