- More on America’s unusually short life expectancy: the absolute gap is mostly overdoses, homicides, and car accidents.
- What’s wrong with BBB lite?
- Should uncompensated house work (including child care) count as part of GDP? Peter Thiel vs. Arnold Kling.
- David Henderson and Casey Mulligan: Why Biden is virtually engineering a recession.
- Jason Shafrin on Grossman’s classic human capital model of the demand for health care.
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- Why doctors find it so difficult to treat monkeypox.
- Global backslide in vaccinations: The full three-dose coverage for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine (DTP) was 81 percent in 2021, a drop of five percentage points from 2019.
- The marriage tax: couples can lose as much as 20 years of income to higher taxes and reduced entitlements. (especially Medicaid)
- The attack on America’s best health plans.
- Learning loss from school closures during the the pandemic: the average for 20 countries is a half year of schooling.
Wednesday Links
- How an economist thinks about abortion. Well, at least one economist.
- Why is Google investing in health care?
- Is developing Covid vaccines a profitable venture for drug companies? “The answer is a resounding ‘no’. In fact, in most cases, developing mRNA vaccines for a portfolio of emerging diseases would be a money loser.”
- How common is prior authorization?
- Price controls on insulin: The (intended?) result will that be that consumers will pay more, diabetes complications will get worse, and incumbent manufacturers will make more money.
- Almost a quarter of Americans over the age of 18 are now medicated for one or more of these conditions. (HT: Tyler)
- Canada’s health care providers say their system is “collapsing.”
Wednesday Links
- Can there be a birth control pill for men?
- If you call the IRS there is only a 1 in 50 chance you will reach a human. And, the average time waiting on hold is 29 minutes
- Law firm’s advice to insurance companies: Delaying the payment of claims is an effective way to hold down costs.
- Why get plastic surgery? To boost self-esteem.
- When Democrats had a supermajority, why didn’t they codify Roe? One theory: Both the left and the right benefit from having abortion undecided and contentious because it brings out their voter bases.
- Yglesias: Slowly updating vaccines to chase variants that are already in the rearview mirror is not an acceptable global Covid strategy. Recommended
- Global Covid update by Jason Shafrin.