More than three-quarters of seniors claim they want to age in place, living out the remainder of their life in their own home. This includes when they become too infirm to clean, bathe, cook and maintain their property. Running a household when you cannot do chores yourself can get expensive. Some houses do not lend themselves to senior living.
Category: Policy & Legislation
Wednesday Links
- “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Here is what that means today if you are covered by Centene, the largest provider of Obamacare insurance in the country.
- Why the British economy is stagnating: “It is difficult to build almost anything, anywhere.”
- Most anti-smoking drugs don’t work and the drug companies aren’t anxious to develop new ones. Overly strict FDA regulations are partly to blame. (STAT News)
- New York’s Covid tsar spent the pandemic preaching social distancing while attending raves and sex parties.
- “Healthcare is a centrally controlled market. It is both a monopoly—sole control of supply—and a monopsony—single determinant of demand.”
Indian Drug Makers Busted for Concealing Poor Quality
There is a lot more to FDA compliance than what I’ve written. I have tried to explain in less than a paragraph what quality engineers spend their entire careers trying to learn. Virtually all drug and medical device manufacturers hire consultants to help them meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines.
Friday Links
- Medicare price negotiation for new drugs may not affect drug company revenues as much as was originally thought.
- 30-year-olds: living on their own and not marrying.
- Cato study: the largest states got the most covid aid (per capita) and this boosted the re-election chances for the incumbents in Congress.
- The left’s answer to the housing crisis: override local zoning ordinances. [Of course, these are congressional liberals. Local liberal are the ones who create the zoning restrictions.]
- New study: there is no evidence supporting affirmative action in medical school admissions.
- It takes 15 years and 2.6 billion dollars to discover, develop, and bring a drug to market.