Public Health from the People
[ad_1] There are many ways to privately improve public health. Such responses make use of local knowledge, entrepreneurship, and civil society and pursue standard goals of public health like controlling the spread of infectious diseases. Moreover, private responses improve overall welfare by lowering the total costs of a disease and limiting externalities. If private responses […]
Wealth Precedes Health. Policy Should Reflect That.
[ad_1] Unidentified newborn in a rural hospital in Raxaul, Bihar state, India, 2013 Health inequality is back in the headlines. Some researchers, concerned with discrepancies across England, recently presented findings that over a million people living in “deprived” areas died earlier than they otherwise would have. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s earlier policies of supporting […]
FTC Suit Against US Anesthesia Partners Highlights How Anticompetitive US Health Care Is
[ad_1] The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), under its chairwoman Lina Khan, has taken on some big corporations including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. One of the FTC’s newest targets is US Anesthesia Partners (USAP), a private equity firm that now owns a number of anesthesiology practices in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, Texas. USAP is accused […]
Project NextGen: Biden Administration Doubles Down on Vax-Only, Boosts Profit over Public Health
[ad_1] The New England Journal of Medicine recently published “Project NextGen — Defeating SARS-CoV-2 and Preparing for the Next Pandemic,” by Xavier Becerra, and Ashish Jha, a “Perspective” so shallow it’s hardly worth pulling on my yellow waders. Starting with the headline: Project NextGen — Defeating SARS-CoV-2 and Preparing for the Next Pandemic It’s not […]
Why You Should Never Use an AI for Advice about Your Health, Especially Covid
[ad_1] By Lambert Strether of Corrente Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere… I certainly wasn’t going to give OpenAI my phone number in order to set up an account to pose a question to our modern-day oracle, so naturally I turned to Google, and after a genuinely hideous Google […]
State Legislatures Have Reined in Public Health Bureaucracies
[ad_1] Oh my God, checks and balances. In “Economic Lessons From COVID-19,” Reason, June 2021, I ended my article with the following: Just as even paranoids can have real enemies, even optimists can have real grounds for hope. I think almost all of us were surprised at how quickly most governors and many mayors moved […]
Nationalism is bad for your health
[ad_1] Yesterday, I encountered two different news stories that illustrated the deleterious health effects of nationalism. In China, a government policy based on national pride is resulting in thousands of needless deaths from Covid: South Korea’s leading vaccine producer says it is unlikely to supply Covid jabs to China due to Beijing’s “national pride” […]