- 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.
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- 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.
Saturday Links
- Teens who use cannabis face 11 times the odds for a psychotic episode compared to teens who abstain from the drug, new Canadian research contends.
- The fertility rates in some countries (e.g., South Korea). Are below 1.0. That is less that one birth for every two adults.
- Why the unwinding of the (Covid-related) expansion of Medicaid didn’t cause an increase in uninsurance: Nearly half of the 5.9 million people who were projected to become uninsured … already thought they were uninsured.” in a 2022 survey.
- Homelessness is bad for your health.
- Whether worker pay has kept up with productivity depends on how you measure “worker pay” and how you measure “productivity.” Is this a joke?
- GPT4 passes the restaurant review Turing test. Observers can’t tell whether the reviewer was human or not.
- How CMS wants to regulate your access to drugs.
Saturday Links
- How much is Medicare spending on the new weight loss drugs?
- Data suggests only about 30 percent of the reported COVID-19 deaths were “from COVID-19” as the underlying cause.
- Drug induced deaths among Blacks is soaring. Is an open border the reason?
- More evidence that Fauci lied and covered up Wuhan Lab funding.
- Why Biden is wrong about wanting to repeal TCJA (the Trump tax cuts).
- Far more people drink alcohol than consume marijuana; but more people consume marijuana than consume alcohol on a daily basis. (WaPo)
- Ambroxol is a miracle drug for coughs and colds. It has been in wide use since 1979, and is available nearly everywhere in the world as a generic. But not in the U.S.
- Electrical impulses are helping paralyzed patients move.