Increased Medicaid Coverage Is Not Improving Low Birth Weight
Marc JoffeWith so many people obtaining Medicaid coverage in the wake of the Affordable Care Act and during the pandemic, it is worth investigating whether this expanded eligibility is improving health outcomes. Overall, decreases in theproportion of uninsured individuals over the last decade are not being matched by improved life expectancy. Indeed, life expectancy at birth in 2021was lower than it was when the Affordable Care Act passed. But this fact tells us little about the benefits of Medicaid coverage since the decline has been driven in large part by COVID-19 deaths among elderly patients (often not on Medicaid) as...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
Government Proposes To Make Bad Standards on Race and Ethnicity Worse
John F. EarlyI recently laid out the case to stop government classification of people by race and ethnicity in a CatoBlog post. Those observations were stimulated by The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posting a notice for comment in the Federal Register with respect to a report from the Federal Interagency Technical Working Group and Race and Ethnicity Standards to revise the existing standards for collecting data by race and ethnicity. Comments are due by April 27, 2023.Ipublished a similar op ‐ed in the Wall Street Journal, which subsequently printed a singleletter to the editor in re...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 18, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: John F. Early Source Type: blogs
Give the Gift of P. J. O ’Rourke
David BoazThe Cato Institute offers lots of greatChristmas gifts— Pocket Constitutions (also a good gift forBill of Rights Day!), books, even Cato ‐brandedLands ’ End merchandise. But I have my own holiday recommendations that I’ve made before.I decided one year to give a young colleague a post‐graduate course in political science and economics —P. J. O ’Rourke’s booksParliament of Whores andEat the Rich. So I went to my local Barnes& Noble to search for them. Not in Current Affairs. Not in Economics. No separate section called Politics. I decided to try Borders (RIP). But first — to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Terrorists Are Not Crossing the Mexican Border
Alex NowrastehMany politicians are worried that terrorists hidden among the illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, and unaccompanied alien children are currently crossing the Southwest border from Mexico. The most recent example is abrutal grilling of Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by Representative Dan Bishop (R-NC). In that interview, the secretary even stated that “known or suspected terrorist — KST is the acronym that we use — individuals who match that profile have tried to cross the border, the land border, have tried to travel by air into the United States not only this year, but las...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 18, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Immunity of the Legal Order to COVID-19 Infection: The Response of the Albanian Legal Order to the Infection
Ismail Tafani (Albanian University), Immunity of the Legal Order to COVID-19 Infection: The Response of the Albanian Legal Order to the Infection, 9(1) Global J. Politics L. Research 39 (2021): The scope of this article is the analysis of the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 25, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Prosecution of Washington ’s Kosovo Clients for War Crimes
Ted Galen CarpenterThe United States and its NATO allies launched a military intervention in 1999 that helped the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) win its secessionist campaign against Serbia.U.S. officials justified that intervention on the grounds that Serbian security forces were committing pervasive war crimes against the Kosovar insurgents.American supporters of the KLA also asserted that the secessionists were staunch Western ‐style democrats mounting a noble resistance against Slobodan Milosevic ’s corrupt, brutal regime, and that America had a moral obligation to support them.Speaking at a pr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 26, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Give the Gift of P. J. O'Rourke
David BoazThe Cato Institute offers lots of greatChristmas gifts -- Pocket Constitutions (also a good gift forBill of Rights Day!), books, apparel, even Cato-brandedLands' End merchandise. But I have my own holiday recommendations that I've made before.I decided one year to give a young colleague a post-graduate course in political science and economics —P. J. O ’Rourke’s booksParliament of Whores andEat the Rich. So I went to my local Barnes& Noble to search for them. Not in Current Affairs. Not in Economics. No separate section called Politics. I decided to try Borders (RIP). But first — to avoid yet more driving...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 5, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Bad viruses travel fast: Measles vaccine important for travelers
(This post has been updated with relevant recent information.)
The United States was declared free from ongoing measles transmission in 2000. But we may be at risk for joining the UK Greece, Albania, and the Czech Republic, four countries recently stripped of measles elimination status by the World Health Organization. Since the beginning of 2019, more than 1,234 measles cases have been reported in 31 states, with active outbreaks in upstate New York and El Paso, Texas. New York has just declared the end of its yearlong outbreak, which required a massive public health response to control. Minnesota had a major measles outb...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Health Infectious diseases Prevention Travel health Source Type: blogs
Bad viruses travel fast: Measles vaccine important for travelers
The United States was declared free from ongoing measles transmission in 2000. But we may be at risk for joining the U.K, Greece, Albania, and the Czech Republic, four countries recently stripped of measles elimination status by the World Health Organization. Since the beginning of 2019, more than 1,234 measles cases have been reported in 31 states, with active outbreaks in upstate New York and El Paso, Texas. New York has just declared the end of its yearlong outbreak, which required a massive public health response to control. Minnesota had a major measles outbreak in 2017. In 2015, 125 cases of measles occurred in Cali...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Health Infectious diseases Prevention Travel health Source Type: blogs
Sen. Rick Scott ’s Venezuela “Genocide” Hype
In media interviews on April 30, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) accused Venezuela ’s leftist regime of engaging in genocide. It was not merely a slip of the tongue; Scott used that inflammatory term repeatedly—as he hadon previous occasions. Foreign policy hawks have resorted to similar tactics to arouse public opinion and generate support for U.S. military interventions in other conflicts, and Scott appears to havethat objective in mind regarding Venezuela.Nicolas Maduro ’s government is indeed a corrupt, repressive regime that has turned what was once South America’s most prosperous society intoa chamber of socialisti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 1, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
There Is No National Emergency on the Border, Mr. President
ConclusionThere will be a long legal battle over the President ’s declaration of a national emergency along the border to build some of his border fence. Regardless of the outcome, there is no good reason to declare the border a national emergency. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 15, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Ethnicity
Don ' t get me wrong. I love Elizabeth Warren. She has spent her distinguished academic and political career fighting for justice and equity. She sees right through the BS thrown up in justification for plutocracy and talks to people in plain language with no apologies for her progressive beliefs. I think she ' d make a great president.But . . .I do think that her repeated claims on various official documents that she has Native American heritage -- and even, on her Texas bar application that sheis straight up Native American -- are very strange behavior that she has not sufficiently explored and explained in public. She s...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 13, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
45,000 “Special Interest Aliens” Caught Since 2007, But No U.S. Terrorist Attacks from Illegal Border Crossers
ConclusionSo far, there have been zero people murdered or injured in terror attacks committed by illegal border crossers on U.S. soil. This includes those who entered as illegal immigrants and those who entered illegally and then applied for asylum. Only seven terrorists from special interest countries, all of whom entered prior to the government putting those countries on a list, even entered the U.S. illegally by crossing a land border. Two of them were arrested within hours of doing so, two other received asylum, and none of them crossed the Mexican border. Our above evidence is based on past events. The futu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier, Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Does the Migrant Caravan Pose a Serious Terrorism Risk?
Yesterday, President Trumptweeted that “unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with themigrant caravan approaching the U.S. border. Vice President Pencelater tried to justify President Trump ’s comment by arguing that, “It is inconvincible that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people advancing toward our border.” Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studieswrote that “the president was obviously referencing … ‘special interest aliens’ … U.S.-bound migrants moving along well-established Latin America smuggling routes from [Muslim] countries.” Perhaps...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Does the Migrant Caravan Pose a Terrorism Risk?
Yesterday, President Trumptweeted that “unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with themigrant caravan approaching the U.S. border. Vice President Pencelater tried to justify President Trump ’s comment by arguing that, “It is inconvincible that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people advancing toward our border.” Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studieswrote that “the president was obviously referencing … ‘special interest aliens’ … U.S.-bound migrants moving along well-established Latin America smuggling routes from [Muslim] countries.” Perhaps...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
