- A congressional bill to codify Roe: abortion rights groups can’t stand it.
- Life expectancy declined in every state in 2020.
- State with the longest life expectancy: Hawaii.
- Sometimes it’s better to forget your health insurance and pay cash.
- Electric shock therapy that seems to work.
- More on the idea that if you grow up poor it pays to have rich friends.
- WSJ editors slam Fauci.
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- Socialized medicine by stealth: Medicaid rolls during the pandemic have swelled by 24 million—a 34% increase—while two million more adults have enrolled in ObamaCare exchange plans.
- Were Democrats being “racist” when they left 2.2 million (disproportionately Black) poor people without health insurance while giving subsidies to high-income (disproportionately white) people. This is consistent with the history of social insurance.
- Covid Vaccine backlash: “10 percent of those vaccinated said they wish they hadn’t done so, while 15 percent of adults said they have been diagnosed with a new condition by a medical practitioner weeks or months after the first dose.”
- Study: Mandatory paid sick leave reduces ER visits. If so, employers and employees should be able to voluntarily adopt it until the marginal benefit equals the marginal cost. Duh!
Wednesday Links
- Tyler Cowen: Given the incredibly good return we are getting on drugs, shouldn’t we be spending more on pharmaceutics, not less?
- Republicans need an alternative to drug price fixing. I’ve given them a good start.
- The very worst health care provisions in the IRA bill.
- Life is a bitch, if you have diabetes.
- Claims about Covid: It was CCP biological warfare.
Wednesday Links
- When the Obamacare subsidy expansion doesn’t go away after three years (a good bet), the real cost climbs from $64 billion to $248 billion.
- Health Affairs study: US has the highest administrative costs among the world’s health care systems. Of course it ignores the admin cost of tax collection – which are 25 cents on the dollar, or more.
- Keeping Africa poor: first world elites want to deny the third world access to fossil fuels.
- There is no safe level of lead exposure; but lead is added to turmeric (a spice used in cooking in South East Asia) to give it a yellow color – and it may be in spices in NYC.