- Good news: The FCC is cracking down on robocalls.
- The case for Novavax.
- Lancet study: rising global temperatures since 2000 have caused 116,000 more heat deaths annually, but also led to 283,000 fewer cold deaths.
- The doctor doesn’t know best: health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers are switching mental health patients from a prescribed medication to one that may not work as well.
- How well does Paxlovid really work?
- Why is America’s mortality rate higher than that of other nations? Study considers every possibility except the obvious one: our population is heterogeneous. Last time I looked, Americans of northern European descent have the same life expectancy as northern Europeans.
Author: John C. Goodman
California is Going to Make its own Insulin
Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will spend $100 million to develop low-cost insulin and build an in-state manufacturing facility.
Friday Links
- AMA encourages doctors to learn health economics. They even have their own online course. Haven’t checked it out, but I suspect it is more sociology than economics.
- Amazon wants to be your doctor.
- Déjà vu: Monkeypox testing looks like the Covid testing fiasco all over again.
- “probably half of all Covid infections have happened this calendar year — and it’s only July.”
- Insulin bill in the Senate looks like a done deal.
Thursday Links
- Fauci isn’t retiring after all.
- CBO: taxpayers would save billions of dollars and the number of people with health insurance would remain the same if the (Obamacare) extended subsidies are allowed to expire in December.
- The other side of waste: More spending leads to better health outcomes.
- Cato: Day Light Savings Time transition has been linked to increased risks of car accidents, heart attacks, and depressive symptoms in studies.