- Social Security’s online Benefits Calculator – don’t rely on it.
- How the FDA makes decisions: ruling first, evidence later.
- Something parents might want to read before they get a Covid vaccine for their kids.
- Why does the new IRA bill create medical benefits for millionaires, while doing nothing for 2 million low-income adults in a “coverage gap”—too poor to claim credits on the Obamacare exchanges, but ineligible for Medicaid?
- Bats can prolong their lifespans by hibernating. Could that work for humans?
- Study finding we already knew: higher income people spend more on health care.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- Should manufacturers be required to disclose the development cost of new drugs? Probably not.
- JCT: At least half of the tax burden in the Manchin/Schumer budget bill will be borne by Americans making less than $400,000, and roughly $17 billion worth of new taxes will fall on those earning less than $200,000.
- Voters like the health care provisions: 77% like Rx price caps and 56% like the extension of ACA health insurance premium subsidies for three more years.
- Go Ask Alice? — the supposed 1971 diary of a white teenage suburbanite who gets slipped LSD in a Coke at a party, then slides into addiction and ruin is a complete myth.
- Study: Lower socioeconomic kids do better if they socialize with higher socioeconomic kids. Did we really need a study to know this?
Thursday Links
- In Fixing Food, Richard A. Williams, a 30-year cost-benefit analyst at the FDA, says the agency isn’t protecting the public. Book review here.
- John Cochrane video on free market health insurance.
- Nearly 5 million people are paying no premium at all for their Obamacare Insurance. (WSJ) But if they had the cash, almost all of them would do something else with it.
- Next big thing in cannabis: a gentler high that offers relaxation and pain relief without the anxiety or fuzzy-headedness of regular weed.
- In Vancouver, you can get a fentanyl high for free – courtesy of the Canadian public health system.
- Kim Bellard at The Health Care Blog admits he has been wrong. About his belief in managed care? Or, managed competition? Or, his failure to appreciate the power of markets? Or, patient power? No. None of these. He was wrong because he hoped people would care more about health and more about patients than profits. Not exactly the mea culpa we were looking for.
Thursday Links
- Fauci isn’t retiring after all.
- CBO: taxpayers would save billions of dollars and the number of people with health insurance would remain the same if the (Obamacare) extended subsidies are allowed to expire in December.
- The other side of waste: More spending leads to better health outcomes.
- Cato: Day Light Savings Time transition has been linked to increased risks of car accidents, heart attacks, and depressive symptoms in studies.