- Corporate inversions transfer the company’s tax residence to another country. There have been zero inversions since the passage of the Trump tax reform in 2017.
- Comparing the regulatory costs and benefits of the last three presidents.
- Since the Biden CMS doesn’t believe in market solutions, they are inviting states to experiment with hospital “global budgets.” Just like Canada?
- 40% of cancers are linked to bad behavior.
- The FTC’s case against PBMs.
- Pro PBMs; anti Pharma.
- The 340B Program … is on track to eventually surpass Medicare Part D spending, becoming the largest federal prescription drug program.
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- Our species has been on earth for only about 300,000 years; but 2.6 million years ago, our pre-human ancestors were making stone tools. This sweep of history by Matt Yglesias is recommended
- Two things have grown dramatically over the past decade: the number of people with health insurance and the number of pharmacies getting discounted drugs because they service uninsured patients. The 340B program is costing Medicaid $32 billion a year – mainly because of perverse incentives.
- Positive and negative moods are contagious.
- Woman has a bionic arm and hand, “which she uses confidently to open containers, make morning coffee, water plants and put her clothes on hangers.”
Saturday Links
- What happens when whistleblowers reveal what appears to be medical malpractice associated with “gender affirming care”? The government goes after the whistleblowers.
- More on AI and rural health. (STAT)
- New NBER paper: “Our calculations indicate that currently proposed U.S. policies to reduce pharmaceutical prices, though particularly beneficial for low-income and elderly populations, could dramatically reduce firms’ investment in highly welfare-improving R&D.”
- Could quitting your job actually help the economy?
- Steuerle: “Never in U.S. history has there been so much growth in debt scheduled in current law from past legislation.”
- BMJ publication bias during covid: very one-sided and on the wrong side of history.
- Feds seek delay in releasing covid safety data.
- Do good-looking people live longer?
Saturday Links
- AEI endorses health system price controls. WHAT?
- Multiple agencies “misrepresented and deceived” lawmakers over experiments to swap genes between “more lethal” and “more transmissible” lineages of monkeypox.
- Money doesn’t buy happiness, but happy people are more successful.
- Why some people don’t get covid – even when exposed to it.
- Does spirituality affect health? (Speculative)
- Lawfare explained.