- There are more living cells on Earth — a million trillion trillion, or 10^30 in math notation, a 1 followed by 30 zeros — than there are stars in the universe or grains of sand on our planet.
- Elisabeth Warren’s solution to the generic drug shortage problem: let nonprofit companies produce them.
- Employers are hiring virtual providers as weight-loss drug gatekeepers.
- What is mifepristone? It is used in more than half of all US abortions.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Wednesday Links
- Lilly’s weight loss drug: if you stop taking it you will regain half the weight you have lost.
- Trump’s environmental record was surprisingly good.
- A typical couple reaching age 65 and retiring in 2020 has paid $680,000 in lifetime taxes. They can expect lifetime benefits of about $1.24 million. Most retiree couples are “Social Security millionaires,” regardless of other income and assets.
- One in four animals raised for food are never eaten.
- There are over 73,000 contract pharmacies that qualify for 340B discounts. Is anybody paying list price for these drugs?
More Physicians Want to Work in Medical Business, Not Medical Practice
A recent survey found that more than half of both medical students and nurses in training prefer not to work in patient care. In the United States 63% of medical students and 60% of nursing students report hoping to work in non-clinical areas of medicine, such as public health management, research or business consultancy.
Tuesday Links
- 65 bullet points on leftwing antisemitism. There is a reason why socialism and antisemitism were closely aligned in the 20th century: both are variations of collectivism.
- Thinking about dying.
- What does hospital price transparency have to do with community health centers? The former is an excuse for funding the latter.
- Illness can be financially devastating – in the US, but also in Canada and Britain. The reason: It’s not because of medical bills. It’s because of a lack of income from work.