- The U.S. is no longer among the top 20 happiest countries.
- Saving lives with pig kidneys.
- Why is fetal tissue research so controversial?
- Liberating the pharmacists.
- Highest drug price ever: $4.25 million per treatment.
- Site neutrality (same fee regardless of where the procedure is performed) would save Medicare more than $3.7 billion over the next decade, and lower beneficiary co-payments by $40 a visit.
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- What a ransomware cyberattack is doing to the heath care system.
- Almost every government intervention in response to Covid was wrong.
- Biden’s budget: no plan for Social Security.
- Canadian health minister: You have a duty not to purchase private care: “Going and paying your way out of your circumstances creates a terrible malady for our system.”
- After the collapse of cost-plus financing, private payers began to pay the same way Medicare pays.
Saturday Links
- The world is making better progress at reducing poverty than previously thought.
- David Henderson: “If new drugs can make it in America, they are developed. If they can’t, they aren’t.”
- Study: early risers are happier and healthier.
- Over half of recent college graduates are underemployed.
- Are you better Off? Most Americans are consuming more today (in real terms ) than they consumed in 2019 – before the pandemic.
Saturday Links
- Eugene Steuerle on why Donald Trump and other wealthy people like to borrow. Recommended
- New evidence that Covid was developed in a lab. (WSJ)
- There are over 10,000 known rare diseases and most don’t have a drug approved to treat them. The FDA has approved over 19,000 prescription drugs. Could AI find cures in the 19K to treat the 10K? (WSJ)
- After Morley Safer attributed France’s lower rate of heart disease to drinking red wine in a 1991 segment of 60 Minutes, red wine sales in the United States jumped 40 percent. New research says that’s all wrong.
- AFP: What is an HSA? (30 sec video)
- AFP: How does an HSA benefit you? (30 sec video)
- Members of Congress are upset that Pfizer gave a $50 donation to Dying with Dignity, Canada.
- Danger at the beach: Sand holes are about as deadly as sharks.