- The US has destroyed all of its chemical weapons.
- The covid pandemic spurred a surge in new business startups.
- More on Fauci, the CIA, the lockdowns and the Wuhan lab leak.
- The average American can expect to celebrate only a single birthday in good health after age 65. (NYT)
- Using GPT-4 to predict Cardiovascular Risk. HT: Tyler
- Lifetime health care costs for your pet: $10K to $15K for a dog; $8K to $11K for a cat.
- Solution for Social Security: more sex and more death. Having more children and dying earlier would make the system solvent through 2065.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Saturday Links
- Marriage is a class thing: roughly half of all births to women without four-year college degrees now happen without married fathers.
- Should doctors have to pay the insurers a fee in order to get paid what they are owed?
- Avoiding a hospital stay may improve your odds of survival.
- Intergenerational poverty: 17% of Asian children living in households with incomes below or near the poverty line were poor in adulthood, compared with 25% (Latino), 29% (White), 37% (Black), and 46% (Native American)
- Health Savings Account bills being marked up in the W & M Committee in the House.
Friday Links
- Kaiser: Insurers deny medical claims more often than you think.
- Enthoven in Health Affairs: likes our new Medicare book. A “must read.”
- Tom Miller: why most health policy is déjà vu.
- Why is mental health declining for young women? (NYT)
- Are Biden’s regulations the reason for a 20% drop in blood tests for transplant patients? (WSJ)
- How can you do a placebo-controlled drug trial if the disease affects only a few dozen people? (WSJ)