- The Pilgrims’ real Thanksgiving lesson
- Was the original Thanksgiving a celebration of the massacre of Indians? No. That’s woke propaganda.
- How to get 8 countries to cooperate on cancer drug research: Start the project before telling any of the regulators.
- Bidenflation: Employer health insurance costs are up 7%; Obamacare exchange plans are up 6%.
- Why are those who supported the Covid lockdowns trying to suppress research showing that the lockdowns didn’t work?
- CDC: Last year’s flu shot was less than 50 percent effective for children and adolescents.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- California charges taxpayers twice as much as Florida and delivers worse services.
- The true cost of charging an EV is equivalent to $17.33-per-gallon gasoline — but the EV owner pays less than 7% of that.
- Alvin Hanson: “world population will soon fall fast, and then unless we achieve full AGI or end aging by then, our total world economic capacity will also fall, with scale economies and innovation rates both falling roughly in proportion.”
- How to avoid high drug costs for patients: Let government buy the patents and put them in the public domain.
- Only 1 percent of Americans are both uninsured and lack A opportunity to enroll in subsidized coverage. This entire Health Affairs piece by Brian Blase is recommended.
Thursday Links
- A lot of medical and nursing students are planning on doing something other than direct patient care.
- Study: Health care privatization is good for patients.
- Policies established by close referendums tend to stay in effect for many years thereafter. (HT: Tyler)
- Occupational licensing study: Official recognition of out‐of‐state licenses increases employment of licensed occupations without sacrificing service quality.
- A national medical student group called White Coats for Black Lives took the occasion of the murder of more than 1,000 Jews to provide a full-throated expression of solidarity with Palestine.
Thursday Links
- If “best practices” in medicine really are best practices, why can’t we just copy them everywhere else?
- Although over 80% of insured adults rate their health insurance as “good” or “excellent,” most have difficulty understanding and using it – especially if they are in fair or poor health.
- Marijuana in Colorado: In Denver there are more than 200 licensed recreational dispensaries alone. There are 700 licensed cultivation sites in the state.
- Are dementia rates falling?
- Should we expand pharmacists’ scope of practice to the full extent of their training, as they did in New Zealand and Canada?