- More young people are getting cancer.
- FDA gives up in its battle against ivermectin.
- Adultery is a crime in New York. (And you don’t get a jury trial.)
- US life expectancy is rising again. HT: Tyler.
- Future deficit spending may be worse than what the CBO is projecting.
- For the first time since the Black death, the world’s population is set to decline.
Category: Health Reform
Saturday Links
- The U.S. is no longer among the top 20 happiest countries.
- Saving lives with pig kidneys.
- Why is fetal tissue research so controversial?
- Liberating the pharmacists.
- Highest drug price ever: $4.25 million per treatment.
- Site neutrality (same fee regardless of where the procedure is performed) would save Medicare more than $3.7 billion over the next decade, and lower beneficiary co-payments by $40 a visit.
Health Misinformation Run Amok on Social Media
In the 2020 presidential election Trump supporters were accused of spreading misinformation on social media. Or was it Russian intelligence services? I don’t even recall what that misinformation was or who it was targeted at. Now the Washington Post reports that a misinformation campaign is being waged against hormonal birth control.
Thursday Links
- Biden Budget: more spending on the elderly: crumbs for the children. (Kids don’t vote.)
- 17,000 families in Illinois alone have lost homes to Medicaid recovery since 2021. (NYT)
- The ACCESS Act allows low-income families to redirect a portion of their (Obamacare) subsidies into a tax-advantaged health savings account (HSA).
- “The biggest deficits are showing up in the blue states that received massive [Covid] handouts … and are now facing the day of reckoning.”
- How much is a patient’s life worth in the UK?