- Research: Optimism is good for your health.
- Covid seems to be linked to cancer. (WaPo)
- The average monthly health insurance premium in 2023 was $56 for a dog and $32 for a cat. (NYT)
- Woman at funeral home discovered to be alive.
- For some cancer patients, less care is better.
- The case for euthanasia.
Category: Health Insurance
Saturday Links
- Fauci testimony: He engaged in misleading wordplay and evasive blame-shifting.
- The Trump tax cuts (2017 TCJA) were actually very progressive.
- There have been more than 3 million excess deaths across the US, Europe and Australia since 2020. Could Covid vaccines be a guilty party?
- Why the IRA bill is especially bad for future cancer patients.
- David Boaz, RIP
- Kaiser has produced health policy 101.
- As of April, 5.3% of U.S. adults — 13.7 million people — had long Covid.
Friday Links
- Health economists like the idea of giving Medicaid money to the beneficiaries as a cash grant. But they are weak on specifics.
- Progressive groups want to kill the Trump reform that created employer-paid personal and portable health insurance. So far, Biden is resisting.
- Paragon Health Institute has identified ten ways the tax system affects the health care system, along with recommendations for reform.
- All the news about the rise in maternal mortality was fake news!
- Other possible fake stories: declining geographical mobility and rising teen mental health problems.
- The cost of uncompensated medical care for illegal immigrants in Florida is greater than $566 million, resulting from 54,443 hospital admissions and emergency room visits.
- Does the NIH fund a “lot of small crappy trials”?
Doctors Face Conflicts of Interest from Drugmaker Payments
Patients love free samples. However, there really is nothing truly free in our health care system. That free drug sample is an expensive branded medication when it comes time to refill your prescription. Generic drugs are not available as free samples. Only branded drugs that drugmakers are trying to promote are.