Category Archives: Health care

Inflation Freakout and Possible Fed Overshoot

There’s a lot of nattering about inflation and not enough insight.

Attention Deficit Disorder, The Anticapitalist Condition

Is this hyperbole: “Attention deficit disorder is the neurological condition of late capitalism.”

Calling All CalPERS Long-Term Care Policyholders! Kaiser Health News/New York Times Want to Hear Your Stories

CalPERS long-term care victims, um, policyholders: the press is interested in your plight! Use the link in this post to a NYT contact form.

Fresh Signs of Mosquito Insecticide Resistance in South Africa

South Africa could soon join the list of countries that have relegated malaria to history – although this post highlights the worrying possibility that a spike in malaria cases might occur, as a consequence of insecticide resistance

Will Pfizer’s Paxlovid Be the Game-Changer that Saves Biden’s “Test to Treat” Program?

First we had “shots in arms.” Now we have “pills in mouths.”

Complex Eligibility Requirements, Much-Beloved of Liberal Democrats, Are Lethal When They Take the Form of Medicare Co-Pays and Deductibles

Small increases in cost cause patients to cut back on drugs with large benefits, ultimately causing their death.

Various Covid Updates

Some Covid news, not encouraging but not yet alarming.

DOJ Files Perfunctory Appeal to Revive Travel Mask Mandate

The CDC, which requested the mask mandate appeal, said “an order….remains necessary for the public health.”

Beer and Spirits Have More Detrimental Effects on the Waistline and on Cardiovascular Disease Risk than Red or White Wine

More evidence that moderate wine drinking is not harmful and can confer some health benefits.