- Fauci testimony: He engaged in misleading wordplay and evasive blame-shifting.
- The Trump tax cuts (2017 TCJA) were actually very progressive.
- There have been more than 3 million excess deaths across the US, Europe and Australia since 2020. Could Covid vaccines be a guilty party?
- Why the IRA bill is especially bad for future cancer patients.
- David Boaz, RIP
- Kaiser has produced health policy 101.
- As of April, 5.3% of U.S. adults — 13.7 million people — had long Covid.
Category: Health Reform
Friday Links
- Health economists like the idea of giving Medicaid money to the beneficiaries as a cash grant. But they are weak on specifics.
- Progressive groups want to kill the Trump reform that created employer-paid personal and portable health insurance. So far, Biden is resisting.
- Paragon Health Institute has identified ten ways the tax system affects the health care system, along with recommendations for reform.
- All the news about the rise in maternal mortality was fake news!
- Other possible fake stories: declining geographical mobility and rising teen mental health problems.
- The cost of uncompensated medical care for illegal immigrants in Florida is greater than $566 million, resulting from 54,443 hospital admissions and emergency room visits.
- Does the NIH fund a “lot of small crappy trials”?
Study: Alzheimer’s Takes a Financial Toll Years Before Diagnosis
About 6.7 million senior Americans are living with Alzheimer’s dementia in the United States. This number is expected to double in the next 35 years. The cost of Medicare, hospice care and Medicaid long term care reached $345 billion in 2023, while the cost of unpaid caregiving was even higher. These costs will continue grow and tax the resources of both patients and those providing care.
Thursday Links
- “We find that a ten percent increase in the proportion of county residents with access to broadband internet leads to a 1.01 percent reduction in the number of suicides in a county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health.”
- Does our personality determine our political ideology? (HT: Tyler)
- Linus Pauling was wrong about vitamin C. But he was less wrong than some other bad nutritional advice.
- Why brain dead people may not actually be dead.
- While physician costs for overhead, medical equipment and supplies, as well as administrative staff, have soared, inflation-adjusted Medicare payments to physicians have dropped by over 25 percent over the past two decades. Commentary.
- “The Office of the Inspector General found that Medicare and Medicaid spent over $18 billion in three years on drugs with accelerated approval but incomplete confirmatory clinical trials.”