Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Wednesday Links
- Medicaid enrollment to top 100 million as early as next month.
- Catholic Charities and other NGOs have been transporting illegal immigrants all over the country, with taxpayer funding. Who knew?
- What’s in the Omnibus: ending the pandemic policy that prohibited states from taking people off Medicaid, easing Medicare payment cuts for doctors and potentially extending telehealth policies for two years.
- Health care rationing: CVS is limiting shoppers to just two items of children’s pain and fever medicines, both in-store and online, while Walgreens is restricting online shoppers to six items. (Bloomberg)
- Global coal consumption is set to match its all-time high, because of environmentalists’ aversion to much cleaner natural gas.
- Yglesias: Alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana.
Monday Links
- Jeffrey Singer and Trevor Burrus on the misguided history of government regulation of addictive drugs.
- “The FBI set up a command post ahead of the 2020 election to send election-related posts to Twitter and other platforms for possible action. A similar group flagged posts on the day of the 2022 midterms…”
- Scott Atlas: Twitter Censorship Contributed to Destructive Pandemic Policies and Is Criminal.
- New documents reveal how the United States government used a secret Twitter portal to censor COVID-19 content that contradicted the government’s narrative.
- A libertarian Medical Oath.
Sunday Links
- Mark Pauly, et. al.: expensive brand name drugs are worth more than what we are paying for them.
- Study: the biggest losers from the (Obamacare) Medicaid expansion: low-income children.
- Should the homeless be forcibly moved to mental institutions?
- More on Ivermectin.
- A woke Hippocratic oath demonstrating that some of the worse political thinking in the modern era comes from doctors.