- Harvard Study: Medicare could save $3.6 billion a year by taking advantage of Mark Cuban’s new mail order pharmacy.
- Nearly 1 in 4 women in the United States will have an abortion by the age of 45; and almost 93 percent are performed before the 13th week.
- “The greatest heist of American taxpayer dollars in history.” They’re talking about Covid money lost to fraud.
- In Texas, physicians who earn a “gold card” no longer have to endure the hassles of prior authorization.
- The part of covid that’s not over: every large city is below 50% of its office space being occupied.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Monday Links
- The liberal plantation? Washington, D.C., has the largest gap in racial economic equality, compared to the 50 states. The capital also has the largest median income, homelessness rate, unemployment rate, and labor force participation gaps. Study.
- Why has health care been relatively unimpacted by general inflation?
- Poll: One in ten men would like to be cloned
- Why did Biden agree to let China (and other “developing countries”) steal our intellectual property with respect to Covid vaccines?
- A column by New York Times’ David Leonhardt made a bold claim: “The death rate for white Americans has recently exceeded the rates for Black, Latino and Asian Americans.” The claim is almost assuredly wrong.
What Sweden Got Right
Swedish students under the age of 16 didn’t miss a single day of school to COVID closure and were never masked. According to this study:
- No COVID-19 related learning loss in reading in Swedish primary school students.
- The proportion of students with weak reading skills did not increase during the pandemic.
- Students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds were not especially affected.
HT: Committee to Unleash Prosperity
Is the Covid Health Emergency Being Extended to Preserve the Expansion of the Welfare State?
From Paragon Health:
Medicaid enrollment and spending exploded during the pandemic as Congress passed legislation that boosted the federal government’s share of Medicaid costs in exchange for states keeping everyone enrolled, even when they were no longer eligible. Now 15 million or more people who are ineligible are enrolled in Medicaid. The federal spending boost, which is highly inflationary, and the Medicaid enrollment requirements persist with the official public health emergency.