Wednesday Links

Cost/benefit analysis: Should it’s application be different for different demographic groups? For example, should low-income Blacks pay a different soda tax than high-income whites? Don’t laugh. This idea is implied at the Health Affairs Blog.

10,000 years ago, the world’s populating was between 20 and 50 million. And that is where it pretty much stayed until the industrial revolution. After that, it shot up to 8 billion, which is where it is today.

In a single year, between 2020 and 2021, services of psychologists offering both in-person and virtual sessions grew from 30% to 50%.

Against PBMs.

Kamala’s health plan: It could cost $44 trillion over a decade. That includes some $1.8 trillion to cover some 11 million illegal immigrants.