- California charges taxpayers twice as much as Florida and delivers worse services.
- The true cost of charging an EV is equivalent to $17.33-per-gallon gasoline — but the EV owner pays less than 7% of that.
- Alvin Hanson: “world population will soon fall fast, and then unless we achieve full AGI or end aging by then, our total world economic capacity will also fall, with scale economies and innovation rates both falling roughly in proportion.”
- How to avoid high drug costs for patients: Let government buy the patents and put them in the public domain.
- Only 1 percent of Americans are both uninsured and lack A opportunity to enroll in subsidized coverage. This entire Health Affairs piece by Brian Blase is recommended.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Monday Links
- Are apprenticeships a viable alternative to higher education? If so, why does government subsidize the latter and not the former?
- The IRA bill has already stopped the development of one cancer drug and may be delaying many more.
- Why do new drugs have such bizarre names? It’s bureaucracy gone amok.
- Study: thunderstorms cause asthma attacks.
Drowsy Driving is a Public Health Hazard
By now everyone knows that driving under the influence is bad. Indeed, nearly one-third of all traffic fatalities involve a drunk driver. More than half (56%) of drivers involved in an injury or fatal car crash were on at least one drug (including alcohol) at the time that impaired their ability to drive. When I took flying lessons, we were warned that OTC cold medicines and flying is not allowed. The FAA has an explicit list of medication types that pilots cannot ingest while flying. An FAA study found the most common drug in the body of pilots involved in fatal aviation accidents was diphenhydramine (brand name Benadryl).