- France to offer health insurance for pets. Pet rats may be included.
- Winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with mRNA vaccines was previously demoted by the University of Pennsylvania for her research in that area.
- NYC becomes first in the nation to make abortion care available via telehealth.
- Casey Mulligan: The Biden administration’s first two years of rulemaking created more than $1 trillion in regulatory costs or about $10,000 per household.
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- The new Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are formulated to a particular variant that is currently giving rise to only 3% of covid infections.
- Paragon: “We estimate the ACA led to only 1.6 million more Americans with private health insurance despite $60 billion in annual subsidies — an … annual cost of roughly $36,800 for each additional private-insurance enrollee.”
- Neanderthal DNA in modern humans has been linked to serious hand disease, the shape of people’s noses and various other human traits.
- Study: People with positive beliefs around getting older lived seven and a half years longer than those who felt negatively about it. (NYT)
Wednesday Links
- Covid booster tested mice – what we know.
- The cost of Biden’s attempts to undo Trump’s deregulations: 15.3% of household income for the bottom one-fifth of the income distribution, but only 2.2% for the top fifth.
- Gene Steuerle: it’s not clear there has been any slow down in the growth of health care spending.
- Over the last half-century or so, the median household has seen income gains of less than 1% per year.
Wednesday Links
- How widespread is the bias against men?
- A Medicare beneficiary with obesity costs $2,018 more than a non-obese beneficiary.
- Study: obesity drugs could save Medicare as much as $100 billion per year.
- NEJM counter study: obesity drugs could cause CMS budget to skyrocket.
- Is Medicare Advantage a bad deal for rural hospitals?