News Media
News MediaO nce upon a time, a man named John Doe decided to enter the political arena and run for office. He ran for city council and won. Unfortunately, his ideas ran contrary to the views of the local news media.At one meeting, Mr. Doe proposed some infrastructure work. “For example, we might pave the sidewalks in town,” he suggested. “That would result in safer, easier walking, and it would upgrade our town’s image. After all, no more tracking mud into our homes and stores would be a significant positive for everyone.”The next day, the local paper, theClarion, ran this article: Doe...
Source: The Virtual Salt - January 21, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
Libertarian Economics in Inaugural Addresses
Ryan BourneInaugural addresses have historically been used by incoming or returning Presidents to outline the broad principles by which they intend to govern. With the exception of the federal budget and taxes, the limited reach of early U.S. federal governments meant that, up until the progressive era of the late 19th century, these speeches contained little mention of economicpolicies. That, of course, has all changed since FDR and the 1930s. Donald Trump ’s 2017 speech had a particularly dark tone for free-marketeers, claiming policy should “protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Publicly funded hospital care: expenditure growth and its determinants
Centre for Health Economics - Understanding the drivers of growth in health care expenditure is crucial for forecasting future health care requirements and for the efficient use of resources. This paper considers total hospital admitted care expenditure in England between 2009/10 and 2016/17.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 19, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finance Source Type: blogs
Relational Goals
A nice way to identify goals, especially for the New Year, is to clarify how you’d like to upgrade your relationships with different aspects of life. Then identify and commit to action-based goals that you expect would improve these relationships.
For example, you have a relationship with:
moneyyour bodyeach key person in your lifeyour workyour habitsyour daily routineyour exercise routineyour dietsleepliferealityyour skillsyour emotionsyour past selfyour future selfyour websiteyour homeyour workspaceyour lifestyle
You could start by rating each of these relationships on a scale of 1-10. Which of your most i...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Lifestyle Relationships Source Type: blogs
Will Biden Turn the Education Department over to the Teachers Unions?
David BoazPresident ‐elect Biden is rumored to be consideringa teachers union head to be his secretary of education. Since the Education Department was essentially created by the National Education Association, this is basically just confirming their control. It ’s understandable that Biden would promise to name a teacher for this post. After all, who knows education better than teachers? It no doubt sounds good to voters. But imagine a candidate promising to name a defense contractor as secretary of defense, an oil company CEO as secretary of energy, or a real estate developer as HUD secretary. For each of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 23, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 16th 2020
This study conclusively demonstrates the long-speculated relationship between aging, gene regulation, and somatic damage. The results open up new avenues of research with practical implications. If the same level of coordination reduction between genes is indeed a leading cause for aging phenomena, there may be a need to change course in current efforts to develop aging treatments.
Using Oligodendrocyte Extracellular Vesicles to Induce Tolerance to Myelin as a Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/11/using-oligodendrocyte-extracellular-vesicles-to-induce-tolerance-to-myelin-...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 15, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
What We Do Not Know about Climate Change and Why That Matters
Peter Van DorenTheNew York Timesrecentlysummarized the environmental regulatory legacy of President Trump as well as some more recentmaneuvering with respect to future climate change reports. Not surprisingly the articles painted neither a pretty nor subtle picture:… as Mr. Biden works to enact domestic climate change rules and rejoin the Paris accord, emissions attributable to Mr. Trump’s actions will continue, tipping the planet further into a danger zone that scientists say will be much harder to escape.“Donald Trump has been to climate regulation as General Sherman was to Atlanta,” said Michael Gerrar...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 11, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
Implicating TFAM in the Mitochondrial Dysfunction that Accelerates Immune Aging
This short commentary looks at just one cell type, T cells of the adaptive immune system, in which loss of mitochondrial function produces issues such as cellular senescence that contribute to broader degenerative aging throughout the body. Every cell contains hundreds of mitochondria, responsible for producing adenosine triphosphate, an energy store molecule used to power cellular processes. When that supply diminishes, everything suffers as a consequence: cell function, tissue function, health. With age, mitochondrial function is observed to decline throughout the body. This is likely the result of signaling and gene exp...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 9, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A Cure at Any Cost? Time to Shine a Light on Drug Pricing
By CECI CONNOLLY and BOBBY CLARK
We are all are anxiously awaiting the approval and delivery of a cure to the novel coronavirus – or better yet, a vaccine.
Amid the race to develop a safe and effective vaccine, some may be inclined to give drug companies a pass on their well-established bad behavior related to pricing and market competition.
But that would be an awfully expensive mistake.
As the COVID-19 pandemic claims more lives and families’ livelihood, policymakers and the public must press drug makers for more information on the products they are developing. The country must be protected agains...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy bobby clark Ceci Connolly COVID-19 Drug Pricing Pharma Source Type: blogs
Resting Metabolic Rate in Aging and Age-Related Disease
Resting metabolic rate declines with age, a situation that has evolved for perhaps much the same reasons as loss of stem cell function, in that it is one part of the trade-off between risk of death by cancer on the one hand versus organ failure due to faltering tissue maintenance on the other. Researchers here note that this reduction in resting metabolic rate is attenuated by the presence of age-related diseases. Why would age-related disease cause a relative increase in resting metabolic rate? Perhaps because the body is devoting more energy to fighting the condition, or perhaps the disease processes themselves, such as ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 28, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 8 (Supplement): The Brookings Report
George SelginIn assessing the New Deal's contribution to economic recovery, I've naturally tended to draw on fairly recent research. That keeps me from being accused of being out of date. But it makes me vulnerable to the charge of overlooking the testimony of experts who studied the New Deal's consequences at first hand.To that charge, I plead an emphatic Not Guilty! Those who know me will back me up when I say that I'm actually an antiquarian at heart, who'd much rather read a musty old report than any recent journal article. So I've read plenty of contemporary writings on the course of the depression and recovery, and t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 14, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Congress Is Getting the Transition to Alternative Payment Models Wrong
By TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN
Alternative payment models (APMs) are a hot topic these days, and everyone seems to agree that we need to transition toward them and away from fee for service (FFS). But how should we do it?
First, let’s think about this task as government policy makers would think about it.
They would probably start by saying, “We need to find a way to give incentives to providers and payers to try out these different APMs.” This would be fairly easy to do through Medicare, so they would create some Medicare APM programs and structure them in a way that makes the benefits of joining large enough th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Alternative Payment Model TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN Source Type: blogs
The Fed ’s New Strategy: From Missed Target to Missed Opportunity
George SelginAlthough dedicated Fed watchers long saw it coming, thebig news from Jackson Hole is that the Fed now has a new monetary policy strategy —the crowning achievement of the much-ballyhooedreview of its " Strategy, Tools, and Communications " it launched in early 2019. It ' s called " average inflation targeting, " and chances are that if you ' re reading this you ' re wondering (1) what the heck it means and (2) what, if any, difference it will make.Don ' t feel bad. More than a few seasoned monetary economists have been asking themselves the same questions, myself included. Having come up with some answers, I ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 2, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
