A newly restarted coal plant in Germany. Photographer: Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images Many Americans used to admire the UK’s National Health Service, but right now the whole system is ailing. There has been a labor and capital shortage, and a collapse of emergency health care services, which may be costing up to 500 excess (non-Covid) deaths…
Category: John C. Goodman
Monday Links
- Should vending machines be available to dispense medication for opioid overdoses?
- Why are people having less sex?
- Study: Native Americans, once among the tallest people in the world, lost their height advantage after the demise of the bison.
- How university research → startup companies → commercial innovation led to the Moderna Covid vaccine.
- How colleges and students scam the student loan program and why Biden’s new executive order will make things much worse.
- Euthanasia is the sixth leading cause of death in Canada.
Friday Links
- 100% of large health insurers cover telemedicine for mental health and other behavioral health problems. (gated)
- However, more therapists are refusing to accept private insurance. (WSJ)
- Israeli study: Paxlovid (for Covid) lowered hospitalization rates in 65-year-olds and older by about 75%, but people ages 40-64 who took the drug shortly after infection saw little to no benefit.
- Kaiser: Most Medicare beneficiaries will soon get their coverage through Medicare Advantage.
- A liberal critiques Biden: He needs advisers who think like economists. A good read if you are an Yglesias subscriber.
Thursday Links
- The chronically ill have trouble paying their bills.
- Survey: 43 percent in the 19-30 age group has used cannabis 20 or more times over the previous year.
- How to earn $139,000 a year as a nurse.
- What a black hole sounds like.
- 40% of US births are out of wedlock. But internationally we are in the middle of the pack. In Iceland it is 71%.