- Generic drug prices are falling. That’s good news for consumers unless the drug is not available.
- Study: China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme has saved lives, increased life expectancy.
- Poland experienced five decades of a planned economy, followed by three decades of market orientation. The market is better.
- Pre Obamacare, Did Health Insurance Companies Refuse to Insure a Lot of People?
- Why do so many private schools look just like public schools?
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- Judge’s free speech ruling was prompted by Fauci’s attempt to silence lockdown critics.
- Outgoing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky warns we should beware of politicized science and misinformation. But, no mea culpa?
- A quarter of all Americans have not yet been infected by Covid.
- AI in health: Who gets paid? Who gets sued? AI has already been used in diagnosing dementia, heart attacks, lung cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
- Prof. Kotlikoff explains the difference between the economist’s approach to personal financial planning and the conventional approach.
- Casey Mulligan study: Biden regulations are costing $10,000 per US household.
Thursday Links
- Of the 7.5 million people who bought their first firearm during the pandemic, half were women, and nearly half were people of color.
- More than $200 billion (17%) of small business Covid relief lost to fraud.
- Is pickle ball too noisy?
- College tuition explained: it’s price discrimination.
- GOP Senators: “We were shocked to see the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announce via a tweet that the Administration has ‘taken steps for temporary importation of certain foreign-approved versions of cisplatin products’ – meaning from China – without otherwise informing American oncologists.”
Thursday Links
- A (somewhat weak) defense of eating animals.
- The US has been falling behind other countries in life expectancy. (77 vs 82 years for all high-income countries)
- Possible reasons: we have more deaths by car crashes, gun homicides, suicides and overdoses.
- George Halvorson: Medicare Advantage is saving money for the Medicare program – despite contrary claims.
- Americans are the biggest consumers of high fructose corn syrup in the world. The reason: sugar quotas make the price of sugar in the US really high.