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Tuesday Links

Posted on August 1, 2023July 31, 2023 by John C. Goodman

George W. Bush’s program to combat AIDS in Africa has saved as many as 25 million lives — more lives than any other US government policy in the 21st century.

Sunday was the 58th birthday of Medicare and Medicaid. The cost of Medicare has grown from $10 billion in its first year to nearly $750 billion last year. Taxpayers spend nearly $730 billion a year on Medicaid, up from under $1 billion at its inception.

Chip Kahn and a whole slew of hospital affiliated authors: If value based purchasing doesn’t work, it’s not our fault.

The cost of medical privacy:  The original Privacy Rule from 2000 is 419 pages of dense legalese. This is in addition to revisions to the rule from 2002 (93 pages), 2013 (137 pages), 2014 (27 pages), and 2016 (15 pages).

Over the last few years, the rate of death from Covid for the unvaccinated has been between 300% and 900% higher than for the vaccinated.

Mental health problems diminish with income HT: Tyler

Stress really can cause your hair to fall out. (NYT)

Some patients are paying as much as $100,000 a year for unproven ways to live longer. (WSJ)

1 thought on “Tuesday Links”

  1. Bart Ingles says:
    August 1, 2023 at 9:44 pm

    When viewing the different age ranges in the linked graph, the vaccine benefit seems questionable for younger participants, at least after the initial Omicron wave. And the graph only claims to show COVID deaths, which would ignore any related to complications from the vaccine itself.

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