- In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Alliance for Connected care rebutted three myths:
- Telehealth Does Not Lead to Increased Fraud
- Telehealth Has Not Been Shown to Drive Overutilization
- Telehealth Has Not Been Shown to Increase Spending
- Older patients with diabetes do better if they have the means to pay for care (health insurance, higher income or higher wealth).
- For years contraceptives could only be sold by prescription. People can now buy oral contraceptives on Amazon.
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- How big a problem are counterfeit drugs?
- Republicans don’t like Biden’s new budget.
- Biden gaffes: “We added more to the national debt than any president in American history.” And “Send me to Congress.”
- Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands allow doctors to commit [euthanasia], so have become as permissive as realistically possible.
Tuesday Links
- Tyler Cowen: Biden economic policy is huge spending on green energy technology with borrowed money. It’s too soon to know if it will pay off.
- How young women responded to Covid: they took antidepressants.
- “Zero Tolerance” laws, which set strict alcohol limits for drivers under age 21 and led to sharp reductions in youth binge drinking and led to health and income gains later in life.
- Financial penalties for delayed enrollment to encourage people to enroll earlier in health insurance markets work initially, but then lose steam – at least in Australia.
Tuesday Links
- Conflicting advice on how to live longer: Dr. David Sinclair, author of Lifespan, argues that it’s very important to limit the amount of protein in your diet. Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Attia, the author of Outlive. argues that it’s very important to have a high protein diet – eating far more protein that the standard recommended daily allowance guidelines show.
- Around 2% of babies in the US are now born through IVF.
- Google’s AI chatbot refuses to say if Hitler or Musk is worse.
- How we’re coming apart — politically speaking.