Most of the additional fatal overdoses post-Covid involve methamphetamine and fentanyl made in Mexico, China and India. For each overdose death, more than 100 people struggle with debilitating addictions to these dangerous substances.
Coincident with policy changes advertised as civil-rights progress, the comparatively low drug-overdose rate for blacks began to accelerate. It reached the white rate by 2019 and then surged past it during the pandemic to reach 43 annually per 100,000 of the black population by last September.
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Hospitals Perform a Ton of Unnecessary Procedures… Even During Covid
When Covid-19 struck in early 2020 many hospitals and hospital outpatient clinics began to scale back or stopped performing non-emergency procedures. The idea was to avoid putting patients at risk of Covid or to reserve capacity for those with Covid. At least that was the theory and partly why hospitals were provided federal bailout funds…
Lowering Eligibility to Age 60 will Bankrupt Medicare Sooner
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report on lowering the age for Medicare eligibility to age 60. The report Budgetary Effects of a Policy That Would Lower the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 60 found Medicare rolls would rise by nearly 14 million people. It would also increase the budget deficit by $155 billion over a 5-year period.