- What Noble Laureate gene editors don’t seem to want to talk about: can they change the evolution of the human race?
- Eye hospital travels from place to place – inside an airplane.
- How could Pickleball (a wimpy sport in my view) be sending so many people to the ER?
- Your pharmacist can now prescribe Paxlovid. But does Paxlovid work if you have already been vaccinated? and How did the FDA get the power to decide who can prescribe?
- Monkeypox: Trump secured the right to 13 million vaccine doses and ordered 1.4 million for emergency use in 2020. So why are all those doses being stockpiled in Washington?
Category: Health Reform
Government’s Role in Health Care Keeps Growing
This is Brian Blase in Health Affairs:
More than one in four Americans is now enrolled in Medicaid.
Close to 20 percent of all enrollees are only eligible for the program because the Biden administration has extended the COVID public health emergency far past the time of an actual public health emergency.
Only 4.5 million people who are lawfully present in the United States lack health insurance and are not eligible for Medicaid, a subsidized exchange plan, or employer-sponsored insurance. This equals 1.7% of the under-65 population.
Mosquitoes Have a Plethora of Ways to Hunt Humans
An article in The Atlantic delivers some bad news. The damage done by mosquitoes is immense and they’re not easy to stop.
The insects’ infatuation with us is costly: By way of the many, many deadly pathogens they carry, mosquitoes kill more people than any other animal on Earth does (except, well, us).
It turns out that mosquitoes are complex creatures that track us in numerous ways.
Monday Links
- Euthanasia in Canada: are doctors and health workers talking patients into it?
- Japan to young people: drink more alcohol!
- Hospitals say they need more money – their patients are “sicker.”
- The federal government gave state and local governments almost $1 trillion to offset the effects of Covid. What difference did that make? Not much.
- Stats from UK: Why are there so many non-Covid excess deaths? (They may even exceed Covid deaths.)