Do you like to dine on a meal of McDonald’s Big Macs and supersized fries? Maybe you like desserts like fried pies a little too much. Perhaps you think that jogging to McDonalds and back after eating a Big Mac will atone for your poor diet. According to experts it won’t.
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Thursday Links
- A death row inmate wants to donate a kidney. Texas won’t let him.
- How well does Paxlovid really work?
- Casey Mulligan and Joe Grogan defend PBMs. (WSJ)
- More on surprise bills: they occur in one in five emergency room visits and up to one in six in-network hospital stays.
- The Baduy, an indigenous group in Indonesia, have rejected vaccinations. Their Covid death toll: zero. (NYT)
- More on circadian rhythms: mice live longer if they eat on the right time schedule. (DMN)
Medi-Cal’s Use of Prison Labor to Make Eyeglasses ‘Short-Sighted’
Medi-Cal, the Medicaid program in California relies on prison labor to manufacture eyeglasses for beneficiaries. A recent LA Times article (also appearing in Kaiser Health News) deemed that program “short-sighted,” no pun intended. The eyeglasses are made by the California Prison Industry Authority, or CALPIA, whose contract with Medi-Cal dates back to 1988.
Wednesday Links
- How an economist thinks about abortion. Well, at least one economist.
- Why is Google investing in health care?
- Is developing Covid vaccines a profitable venture for drug companies? “The answer is a resounding ‘no’. In fact, in most cases, developing mRNA vaccines for a portfolio of emerging diseases would be a money loser.”
- How common is prior authorization?
- Price controls on insulin: The (intended?) result will that be that consumers will pay more, diabetes complications will get worse, and incumbent manufacturers will make more money.
- Almost a quarter of Americans over the age of 18 are now medicated for one or more of these conditions. (HT: Tyler)
- Canada’s health care providers say their system is “collapsing.”