- “High blood pressure is responsible for more deaths than any other risk factor, including smoking.”
- Why banning “bad foods” from food stamp purchases won’t work.
- The IRA bill: most beneficiaries are unlikely to see a substantial reduction in their out-of-pocket costs from the federal price setting, and for many, costs will actually increase.
- “Before members of the new Congress even walk through the doors of the Capitol to be sworn in, almost every dollar of revenue for the year has already been committed.”
- Covid was bad for physician incomes.
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- Another state sues Pfizer over the covid vaccine.
- Only 6 percent of federal workers are working full-time in their offices.
- Academics reject McKinsey study claiming that racial and gender diversity boosted profits.
- More likely to be Trump voters: “county-level data on life expectancy and the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, heavy drinking and regular physical activity (or lack thereof).”
- National Review: When does Robert Hur get his apology?
Wednesday Links
- Study: Bans on flavored tobacco products don’t work.
- Are women taking over our health care system?
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There are 4.2 million nurses, over 1 million doctors, and over 1/2 million PAs and NPs in the US…. Women hold … 90% of all nursing positions, 66% of PAs, and 55% of all current Medical School slots.
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- NBER study: As hospital prices went up 1%, the percentage of people who ended up out of a job rose by 0.4% and payments for tax-funded unemployment insurance increased 2.5%.
- The total expense [of developing a new drug] is estimated at $1 billion on average. It takes 10 to 15 years. And nearly 90 percent of the candidate drugs that enter human clinical trials fail.
- Colorado wants to import drugs from Canada. Pharma is opposed.
Wednesday Links
- Results of polygenic screening: There are simply no more people with Down’s to be seen on the streets of Iceland and Denmark.
- Surgeon General Vivek Murthy calls for a warning label on social media platforms.
- Kansas sues Pfizer for marketing its Covid-19 vaccine as “safe” even though it “knew” the vaccine was connected to “serious adverse events.”
- “Cost-disease socialism” occurs when you respond to the high cost of something by subsidizing it, but then attach strings that limit the supply and drive costs up further.
- John Tierney explains the “March of Dimes Syndrome.”
- The case for marriage.