CBO: competition and price transparency are the best ways to lower private sector health care costs. Nurse fired for refusing to admit she’s a racist. (WSJ) Against hormone therapy for children. When the dangers of one type of drug addiction become widely known, teenagers switch to another addictive drug. (NYT) Why did McKinsey get into the addiction…
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- How are state universities just like hospitals? Unflattering.
- More empirical evidence of their similarity. Also unflattering. (NYT, gated)
- Fraudsters may have stolen $45.6 billion from the nation’s unemployment insurance program during the pandemic.
- The official child poverty rate is 15.3%; but if you count all the transfers programs, the actual poverty rate is about 2%. (WSJ, gated)
- Sitting all day can erase the benefits of a workout.
Monday Links
- CRISPR isn’t just for editing human genes. It can be used to increase corn and rice yields by 10%.
- Finally: the masks are coming off in Head Start.
- How would you like to be an inch or so taller? Doctors can oblige you.
- Learning loss was greatest in school districts that remained remote the longest.
- More on Rand Paul v. Anthony Fauci.
- Why its hard to know which drugs work best against Covid.
Monday Links
- Biden rule reverses Trump: Illegal aliens will be given green cards and access to Medicaid, CHIP and other health benefits. (gated)
- Fauci: “We don’t have time” to run clinical trials for updated boosters.
- The booster has been tested on mice. But did the mice survive?
- Laffer lives: Overall tax revenue is up $822 billion or 23 percent so far this year, on pace to be $1 trillion more than CBO projected when the Republican-passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) passed, and $1.7 trillion more than the pre-TCJA revenue level.
- From 1986 to 1994, hundreds of Cubans suffering extreme economic hardship injected themselves with HIV-infected blood to gain admittance to sanitariums that offered regular meals and air conditioning. (NYT, gated)