- Cost/benefit analysis: Should it’s application be different for different demographic groups? For example, should low-income Blacks pay a different soda tax than high-income whites? Don’t laugh. This idea is implied at the Health Affairs Blog.
- 10,000 years ago, the world’s populating was between 20 and 50 million. And that is where it pretty much stayed until the industrial revolution. After that, it shot up to 8 billion, which is where it is today.
- In a single year, between 2020 and 2021, services of psychologists offering both in-person and virtual sessions grew from 30% to 50%.
- Against PBMs.
- Kamala’s health plan: It could cost $44 trillion over a decade. That includes some $1.8 trillion to cover some 11 million illegal immigrants.
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- An argument against Pigouvian taxes or subsidies to correct “market failure.”
- The case for Pigouvian taxes.
- Too little or too much sleep is associated with dementia.
- “The sudden near-disappearance of vultures in India about two decades ago led to more than half a million excess human deaths over five years.” (NYT)
- The presence of wolves reduced vehicle collisions with deer by about a quarter, creating an economic benefit that was 63 times greater than the cost of wolves killing livestock.
- Housing in NYC: “They have simultaneously limited short-term rentals such as Airbnb, reducing the number of listings by 80 percent, while at the same time closing 55 affordable youth hostels and spending tax dollars to fill hotels with the homeless and foreign migrants.”
Wednesday Links
- David Friedman on tariffs. Excellent
- AHA opposes Biden’s tariffs on medical equipment, which create $650 million in increased costs to the U.S. medical industry.
- Arizona police arrested a woman for serving home-cooked meals to the hungry and the needy.
- Rather than education, welfare, or nutrition programs, three tax provisions are now the largest category of federal support for children – and over the years they have been on a perpetual rollercoaster.
- More on using foreign trained doctors to solve our physician shortage problem.