- Prescription drug pricing: Most cost-effectiveness analyses exclude probable end-of-patent, life cycle pricing – and set the initial price too low.
- Private approaches may be the best answer to public health problems.
- Rep Michael Burgess on why the CBO needs to consider the long-term benefits of preventive medicine.
- Looks like there are more deaths by fire than by ice. But there are still more deaths by cold than by warming.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- First human receives a computer chip implant that interfaces with the brain. (per Elon Musk)
- Canadian Health Minister: Canada will block drug sales to the US if they threaten to impair access for Canadians.
- How can childcare cost more than college?
- Sex matters: “female patients randomly assigned a female doctor rather than a male doctor [under Texas workers compensation] are 5.2 percent more likely to be evaluated as disabled and receive 8.6 percent more subsequent cash benefits on average.”
- If you are ever reincarnated, don’t come back as a crab-eating macaque. They are used for toxicology testing in the biomedical industry.
Thursday Links
- Can medical expenses be crowdfunded?
- Study of treatment facilities for adolescents with opioid use disorder: nearly 40 percent had no beds immediately available or offered a waitlist, with a mean wait time of 28.4 days. Only 57 percent accepted Medicaid. We are becoming more like Canada every day.
- David Frieman on historical “facts” you have probably heard about (and even seen depicted in movies) that are actually myths. Fun reading.
- The Geothermal energy solution: “There’s 41 times more heat energy in the earth’s crust than that of all known petroleum and nuclear fuel reserves. What’s more, the energy of that sun beneath our feet is carbon-free and potentially available all day, every day.”
- More on abolishing the FDA.
Thursday Links
- Yglesias: Is it time to get rid of teacher licensing requirements?
- Ultraviolet light may be the cheapest and most effective preventive medicine there is.
- With a New York City “get-out-of-jail” free card, you can speed and run red lights with impunity.
- A Chief Patient Officer represents patients in bureaucratic institutions. A Chief Contrarian asks hard questions that otherwise wouldn’t be asked in organizations that are on auto-pilot. Neither would be needed if we had a free market for health care.