- Around 50% of patents linked to drugs approved by the FDA directly cite NIH-funded research.
- The case for work requirements included in the GOP’s Debt limit bill.
- Gramm and Solon: the case for the Republican Debt-Ceiling bill is strong.
- Big Brother strikes again. CMS: no more mail delivery for cancer drugs. (InsideHealthPolicy – gated)
- Is ChatGPT nicer than your doctor? Is the information better?
Category: News and Events
Fraud Alert: Unsolicited Covid Tests Sent to Seniors, Bill to Medicare
When Covid first began to spread it was difficult for patients to obtain Covid tests without going to an emergency room. When tests first became widely available there were drive-through testing centers with lines that snaked for blocks. When my wife began to feel ill in January of 2021, I made her an appointment for a Covid test at a Walmart Neighborhood Market pharmacy. The soonest appointment available was eight days away. We pulled up to the drive-through window and a pharmacy technician gave us the sealed swab and instructed my wife how to use it. My wife sealed it in the appropriate bag and deposited it in an adjacent laboratory collection box outside the drive-through. The results were relayed to us by phone a day or two later.
The Durham Report
Why are the mainstream media outlets so intent on convincing us there is no there, there?
Maybe it’s because the report invites us to review not just the behavior of the FBI and the intelligence community during the Trump presidency, but also the behavior of the media during all that time.
Here is a brief review of all the times Donald Trump was called a “traitor” on the editorial pages of the New York Times and elsewhere. This was not just schoolyard name calling. In column after column, writers encouraged readers to believe that Trump might actually be the agent of a foreign power.
Monday Links
- Are therapists becoming social justice warriors?
- Some NY lawmakers want to make organ transplants available to illegal immigrants, while citizens stay on waiting lists. (NYT)
- Illinois offers free health care to some illegal immigrants. Spending already balloons to $1.1 billion – five times the initial projection.
- Mass bill: prisoners would get reduced sentences for donating their organs or bone marrow to other patients.