- What Noble Laureate gene editors don’t seem to want to talk about: can they change the evolution of the human race?
- Eye hospital travels from place to place – inside an airplane.
- How could Pickleball (a wimpy sport in my view) be sending so many people to the ER?
- Your pharmacist can now prescribe Paxlovid. But does Paxlovid work if you have already been vaccinated? and How did the FDA get the power to decide who can prescribe?
- Monkeypox: Trump secured the right to 13 million vaccine doses and ordered 1.4 million for emergency use in 2020. So why are all those doses being stockpiled in Washington?
Author: John C. Goodman
Government’s Role in Health Care Keeps Growing
This is Brian Blase in Health Affairs:
More than one in four Americans is now enrolled in Medicaid.
Close to 20 percent of all enrollees are only eligible for the program because the Biden administration has extended the COVID public health emergency far past the time of an actual public health emergency.
Only 4.5 million people who are lawfully present in the United States lack health insurance and are not eligible for Medicaid, a subsidized exchange plan, or employer-sponsored insurance. This equals 1.7% of the under-65 population.
Monday Links
- Euthanasia in Canada: are doctors and health workers talking patients into it?
- Japan to young people: drink more alcohol!
- Hospitals say they need more money – their patients are “sicker.”
- The federal government gave state and local governments almost $1 trillion to offset the effects of Covid. What difference did that make? Not much.
- Stats from UK: Why are there so many non-Covid excess deaths? (They may even exceed Covid deaths.)
Friday Links
- Study: there are no economic rewards for expedited discovery of new Part B cancer drugs.
- In its 4.5-billion-year history, the Earth has experienced five mass extinction waves when more than 75 percent of the species on the planet were snuffed out. A nuclear winter could be the 6th.
- Tyler Cowen: the greatest danger to civilization is war, rather than intelligent robots.
- Walensky on the CDC on Covid: “our performance did not reliably meet expectations.” That’s it?
- Yglesias on leftist values. Recommended.
- Can this be true? “Big pharma is betting on psychedelics for mental health.”