A study in the dynamics of international flows… #4
…China is exporting their comparatively high national savings to the US (due to comparatively very low labor share rates). According to Michael Pettis, the US must absorb those savings from…
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Humans’ Comparative Advantage: Wanting Things
Frances Coppola sums up and expresses a great deal of great thinking in her recent Pieria piece, The wastefulness of automation. I’d like to highlight one point, one that I’ve…
School System Outbreaks of Covid
…the same time, there are now solid studies showing that the mRNA vaccines administered in the US are losing their effectiveness . . . hence, it looks likely that about…
What You Already Knew (?), The Waning of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine – Induced Immunity
…Mattia Manica, and Agnese Zardini AB: The following is broken out in a similar manner as the article. Question: How does the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against laboratory-confirmed Omicron infection and symptomatic…
The Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Program: High Cost for Uncertain Gain
…and tie quality bonuses directly to specific practices within a plan or network. Administrative Effectiveness Measures Do Not Target the Major Issues with MA The administration effectiveness measures included in…
The Impending Doom, Gloom, and Fiery Crash of Independent Meat Processors
…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…
Measuring costs in health care
…on these issues. We analyzed the contents of the Tufts–New England Medical Center Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry (www.tufts-nemc.org/cearegistry), which consists of detailed abstracted information on published cost-effectiveness studies through 2005. Each…
Medicare-for-all-lite
…make those determinations? The authors call for committees made up of technocrats and doctors to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of various technologies, especially new and wildly expensive ones. Plan managers would…
Health Care Thoughts: Counterproductive Regulations?
…physicians what they already k new, Depakote was a very valuable medication for “off-label” (unapproved uses). In the irony department, prescribing and administering Depakote for off-label uses is legal, and…
Energy Star Efficiency Program
…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…