Mexican Immigration Enforcement Has Declined in Effectiveness
President Trump has repeatedly criticized the Mexican government for failing to do more to stop the Central American migrants heading north to the United States through Mexico. Hetweeted yesterday, “They have ALL been taking U.S. money for years, and doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for us, just like the Democrats in Congress!” The truth is more complex. The Mexican government is doing a lot in absolute terms, but its efforts have become relatively less effective over time.Figure 1 shows the number of apprehensions and deportations of Central Americans from the Northern Triangle by U.S. fiscal year from 2001 to 2019. As it sho...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 3, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Why Does the Aging Metabolism Bias Towards Fat Accumulation and Lipid Deposition?
Irina Conboy's pithy description of what aging does to the operation of metabolism runs much as follows: "stem cells are sleeping, so damage is not regenerated. Instead you now make fibrous tissue, and deposit fat tissue to replace the damage. Then gradually over time, you just turn into this big scar and big fat blob." It is certainly the case that the older body seems to tend to hold on to lipids, create fat tissue, and put fats and other lipids into cells where they are usually not found in large amounts in youth. We might well ask why this happens. Is it the result of damage, some form of dysregulation of normal metabo...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 28, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Exploring variations in the opportunity cost cost-effectiveness threshold by clinical area: results from a feasibility study in England
Office of Health Economics -This research paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between health outcomes and health expenditures in England. Results suggest that setting a cost-effectiveness criterion for NICE may not be capable of being synthesised using scientific methods alone, but involve political judgements.Research paperOffice of Health Economics - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 19, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
The Fed ’s Got Problems But Deflation Isn’t One of Them
The following letter was sent to the editors of the Wall Street Journal in response to a March 13th opinion piece by Stephen Moore and Louis Woodhill entitled “The Fed is a Threat to Growth. ”To the editor, While we at Cato hardly qualify as apologists for the Fed, I can ’t resist defending it from Stephen Moore’s sensational claim (“The Fed is a Threat to Growth,” March 14) that its “deflationary” policies have “chopped 1 to 1.5 percentage points off real growth over the past six months.” “Deflation,” first of all, means an absolute decline in prices, and not merely a decline in the rate at whic...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
House Passes Political-Omnibus Bill H.R. 1
H.R. 1, the political regulation omnibus bill, contains “provisions that unconstitutionally infringe the freedoms of speech and association,” and which “will have the effect of harming our public discourse by silencing necessary voices that would otherwise speak out about the public issues of the day.” Don’t just take my word for it; that’s t he view of the American Civil Liberties Union, expressed in this March 1 letter (more). For example, the bill would apply speech-chilling new restrictions to issue ads by cause organizations, should they happen to mention individual lawmakers.The House of Representatives...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
What Are the Costs of U.S. Troops Stationed Abroad?
In private discussions with his aides, President Trump has devised an eye-popping formula to address one of his long-standing complaints: that allies hosting U.S. forces don ’t pay Washington enough money.Under the formula, countries would pay the full cost of stationing American troops on their territory, plus 50 percent more, said U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the idea, which could have allies contributing five times what they provide.Thisperspective seems backwards.If stationing U.S. troops in, say, the Middle East prevents 9/11 ’s or other terrorist attacks against the U.S., then the direct expenditure...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs
Language of Muscles: A Strategy for Learning | Episode 39
00:51 | Cerebellum Functions06:28 | Sponsored by HAPS06:52 | Liver Responds to Food Stimuli09:06 | Sponsored by AAA09:26 | Exercise, Diet, Metabolism,& Body Weight17:29 | Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program17:58 |Featured: Language of Muscles: A Strategy for Learning If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here. Questions& Feedback:1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-546-6336) FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram! If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid...
Source: The A and P Professor - March 10, 2019 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
A Change in Tactics
This article is not the first to suggest health care as a basic human right. It is recognized as such by developed nations across the globe, but we fail to recognize the tactical value in viewing healthcare as a right. In the US, health care is viewed as a transactional exercise. The economic foundation of health care in this country, the fee for service model, reinforces the concept of healthcare as transactional. When conceived in this way, arguments to improve healthcare are provided in the language of commerce. We argue about cost. We argue about quality. Efforts to improve care become arguments about what changes are ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy healthcare reform Robert Pretzlaff Source Type: blogs
Will Congress Act to End the War in Afghanistan?
This week, Senators Rand Paul and Tom Udall introduced a joint resolution to end the war in Afghanistan. This legislation gives the Department of Defense 45 days to formulate a plan for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops within one year. This new plan would accelerate the Trump administration ’s current timetable to withdrawafter 5 years. President Trump campaigned on leaving Afghanistan and has reiterated this interest since taking office. This bill will give him the opportunity to make good on his campaign promise during his first term.My colleague Christopher Preble argues inThe National Interest:The case for this reso...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 5, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
On Empty Purses and MMT Rhetoric
A couple posts ago, I criticized in general terms Modern Monetary TheoristStephanie Kelton ’s suggestion that the expense of the proposed Green New Deal need not make it “a drag on the economy” since the Fed could always foot the bill.That post steered clear of the technical subtleties of Modern Monetary Theory, focusing rather on some of the bolder lessons its proponents like to draw from it. Today I ’ll instead consider one of those subtleties, as found in the following passage from Professor Kelton’s article:As a monopoly supplier of U.S. currency with full financial sovereignty, the federal government is not ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 5, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Being the Leader of Your Life
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The simple definition of “leader” is someone in command of, or the main player in, a group or organization.
I have a slightly different point of view. I see true leadership as being the change you desire to see in the world. It isn’t about having followers, telling people what is right or wrong, or having the answers. Great leaders’ function from a “global wellness” view, where the well-being of all is included in th...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laleh Hancock Tags: featured happiness motivation leadership pickthebrain self improvement self-empowerment Source Type: blogs
Swapping Personal Exercise Data for a Free Apple Watch; What's the Catch?
I have previously blogged about the use of wearables to generate health data with feedback to health insurance companies (see:Apple Watch"Gifted" to Insurance Policy Holders; Any Gotcha's with the Deal?;Microsoft Publishes Guidelines for"Health Wearables"). As part of this trend,UnitedHealthcare is now offering a freeApple watch for customers who meet certain activity milestones. This was described in a recent article (see:UnitedHealthcare Offers Apple Watches to Wellness Program Participants Who Meet Fitness Goals) and some of the details are provided below....[L]everaging the popularity of m...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 22, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Innovations Healthcare Insurance Medical Consumerism Medical Ethics Point-of-Care Testing Preventive Medicine Test Kits and Home Testing Source Type: blogs
Failing Healthcare ’ s ‘ Free Market ’ Experiment in US: Single Payer to the Rescue?
This article originally appeared on LinkedIn here. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Politics ACA Health insurance Khurram Nasir Single payer Source Type: blogs
Size of Health Insurance Conglomerates in U.S. Exceeds That of Big Tech Companies
I have been aware that that large health insurance companies have been expanding by the purchase of PBMs and also entering the market as providers (see, for example:UnitedHealth Group to Launch Its Own Variant of an EHR in 2019; OptumHealth, a Division of UnitedHealth, to Offer Virtual Patient Visits Nationwide). However, I did not really have a sense of their size compared to other sectors of U.S. business. Thus, a recent article on this topic caught my attention (see:Health insurance is as big as Big Tech Data). Below is an excerpt from it:The 5 largest conglomerates combining health insurance and pharmacy be...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 14, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Business Healthcare Insurance Pharmaceutical Industry Source Type: blogs
Responding to Bruce Baker
Mathew Kelly and I provided a new ranking of state educational systems that was published as aCato Policy Analysis in November of 2018. Our goal was to provide a ranking that did not treat all states as if their student populations were identical, unlike traditional state rankings. Instead, students of a particular ethnic group were compared across states and the state ranked based on its average of the group rankings. These rankings were further extended to provide evidence of how much student learning ‘bang’ states were getting for their expenditures (‘bucks’). Finally, we ran some regressions of state performanc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Stan Liebowitz Source Type: blogs
