- Dental insurance isn’t really insurance – it’s a discount service.
- A 20-year-old research paper with lasting relevance asks: Why are people getting fatter? Answer: they are eating too much.
- Is there a nursing shortage or is there a shortage of nurses providing care? And what’s the difference?
- Obese patients are often excluded from drug trials. Is that a mistake?
- After looting CVS, Target and other stores, what do thieves do with the loot? They set up shop on the sidewalk across the street and sell them. DC has made that easier by decriminalizing street vending.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Tuesday Links
- Gene therapy holds great promise. Employer paid health insurance is capable of paying for it.
- Why Sudafed might work despite the science: it’s called the placebo effect. (NYT)
- Was the RSV vaccine developed by experimenting on poor Black children? (NYT)
- Quote of the day by Arnold Kling:
This is a moment of choosing for the American left. Many will side with Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib. That could damage the Progressive brand. It deserves to be damaged.
Monday Links
- There are about 36 million Health Savings Accounts holding $104 billion.
- What the elites don’t understand about obesity.
- Built-in programming for your self-driving car: Should it risk injury to you to avoid hitting a pedestrian? Or the other way around? (WSJ)
- The case for kicking ineligible people off the Medicaid rolls. (DMN)
- It may not be the onset of Alzheimer’s: memory lapses are normal.
- The ACCESS Act would allow roughly 5 million lower-income individuals to redirect their cost sharing subsidy (which now goes to insurance companies) into Health Savings Accounts (which they would own and control). Dean Clancy comments.
Should We Spend Our Entire GDP on Health Care?
How much medical care does society owe Americans that they could not otherwise afford? It’s not a philosophical question, such as how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. This question plays out every day.