House GOP Pushes Back Against OECD
Adam N. MichelThe House Ways and Means Committee Republicans recently released legislation to retaliate against individuals and businesses based in countries that impose extraterritorial taxes on American companies. The proposal is a reaction to ongoing efforts by the OECD to coordinate a global tax increase on large multinational companies.Instead of raising taxes, Congress should stop funding the OECD and focus on making the United States the most attractive place to do business.TheRepublican proposal would have Treasury identify extraterritorial and discriminatory taxes levied by other countries on U.S. companies. In...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
Supreme Court Clarifies Murky “Waters of the United States” Definition: It No Longer Includes Mud Puddles
Jay Schweikert andIsaiah McKinneyThis week, inSackett v. EPA, the Supreme Court closed the book on Mike and Chantell Sackett ’s 19 year saga of trying to build on their land. In 2004, the Sacketts purchased property 500 feet from the shores of Priest Lake, Idaho. In 2007, after they started to fill in wet spots in their property so they could build a home, EPA officials informed the Sacketts that their property was a wetland adjacent to a tributary that fed into the lake, and therefore counted as “navigable waters” under the EPA’s jurisdiction pursuant to the Clean Water Act (“CWA”). The Sacketts would ne...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jay Schweikert, Isaiah McKinney Source Type: blogs
Public Schools Can ’t Force Employees to Support Ideas They Oppose
Thomas A. Berry andNicholas DeBenedettoIn the Fall of 2020, public schools in Springfield, Missouri implemented mandatory “equity” training. All employees of the school district were required to attend a session, not just teachers. The employees were told that if they did not participate, the school district would dock their pay and they could lose necessary professional development credit.The training topics included “Oppression, White Supremacy, and Systemic Racism” and tools on “how to become Anti‐Racist educators.” Training sessions included several interactive exercises that required participants to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry, Nicholas DeBenedetto Source Type: blogs
The HALT Fentanyl Act Doubles Down on Denialism
Jeffrey A. SingerYesterday the House of Representatives voted 289 –133 topass the HALT Fentanyl Act.* Theact permanently classifies fentanyl ‐related substances (FRS)—analogs of fentanyl that differ chemically from analogs currently used medically (e.g.,sufentanil,remilfentanil,alfentanil) —as Schedule 1 drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administrationdefines Schedule 1 drugs as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”Set aside the fact that politicians have no way of knowing that future analogs have no potential medical use (think of all those years lost intreating mental hea...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
The New Rules of Healthcare Platforms: APIs Enable the Platforming of Healthcare
Conclusion
The API economy is growing and changing rapidly, with new business models, tools, and strategies being developed to meet the needs of patients, healthcare organizations, and developers. As APIs become more ubiquitous across industries, they are reshaping the way businesses grow and innovate.
It’s time for healthcare to join the thriving API economy.
Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA, is a health care consultant and primary author of the e-CareManagement blog, where this post first appeared. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health APIs Health Data Healthcare Platforms vince kuratis Source Type: blogs
Why affirmative action is crucial for health equity and social justice in medicine
Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are among the higher ed institutions involved in a U.S. Supreme Court battle over affirmative action that is expected to be decided this spring or summer. As a former appellate defender in the Gratz v. Bollinger affirmative action case in 1993, as well as an emergency medicine physician
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Why affirmative action is crucial for health equity and social justice in medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Katrina Gipson, MD, MPH Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
How Can Platforms Deal with Toxic Content? Look to Wall Street
The Supreme Court recently opted to keep in place a law that shields tech platforms from liability for hosting toxic content. Congress can and should regulate the industry. And there ' s already a regulatory framework for doing so that accounts for freedom of speech concerns. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - May 26, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: James V. Marrone Source Type: blogs
The Supreme Court Strikes Down Home Equity Theft
Thomas A. Berry andIsaiah McKinneyToday, ina unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held that local governments cannot take surplus home equity after liquidating delinquent taxpayers ’ property to pay their tax bill. Typically, if a property owner is behind on her property taxes, governments will take the property, liquidate it, and use the funds to pay off the tax bill and any accrued fees. Most states then return any remainder back to the property owner. However, Minnesota and 13 other states maintained a practice of greedily pocketing any surplus equity instead of returning it to the rightful property owner.That is...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry, Isaiah McKinney Source Type: blogs
Legalizing Organ Sales
This article appeared onSubStack on May 25, 2023.Organ sales are illegal in the United States and most other countries (Iran is a partial exception). The National Organ Transplantation Act of 1984states, “it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the transfer affects interstate commerce.” The penalty for breaking the law is a fine of $50,000 or up to five years in prison , or both.In Libertarian Land, organ markets are legal. This makes everyone better off.Consider first kidneys. People have ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs
New York City, Rhode Island, and Now Minnesota Defy the “Crack House Statute”
Jeffrey A. SingerMinnesota Governor Tim Walz signedSenate File 2974, the Omnibus Human Services appropriations bill into law on Wednesday, May 24. Among the most notable features of the spending bill is that itappropriates $55.49 million in one ‐time grants in 2024 for:[O]rganizations to establish safe recovery sites that offer harm reduction services and supplies,including but not limited to safe injection spaces; sterile needle exchange; naloxone rescue kits; fentanyl and other drug testing; street outreach; educational and referral services; health, safety, and wellness services; and access to hygiene and sanitatio...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Deja vu?
Ezra and Nehemiah were originally a single book, and as a matter of fact early editions seemed to assume that they were actually the same person -- that the story was told twice, in different versions. Certainly it does seem that there is an echo in here. Both characters are Jews who have favor in the court of Ataxerxes, who sends them to be governors of Judah, and they carry out similar projects. Whatever the case, historians seem to believe that Nehemiah was a real person,that he actually was the cupbearer to Ataxerxes, as the narrator claims to be. That means he was a highly trusted courtier -- his job was basically to ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 24, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
High Earners Make Relatively Smaller Tax Errors
Chris EdwardsSenate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D ‑OR) held a hearing last week to counter the House Republican plan to cut the recent IRS enforcement boost. Sen. Wydensaid, “If you’re looking for the big winners of the McCarthy IRS defunding plan, it’s billionaires and corporations who cheat on their taxes … Repealing that funding is a $191 billion giveaway to wealthy tax cheats.”Ioffered a different view at the hearing. I noted that tax enforcement imposes collateral damage, that the tax gap has been stable for decades, and that the U.S. tax gap appears to be smaller than Europe ’s. The “tax ga...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 23, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
How misused terminology and biased studies may be misguiding our understanding of opioid addiction and mortality
As a health care writer and policy analyst, I frequently encounter the term “risk” in discussions of medical issues. I also frequently see the term grossly misused in both the popular press and medical literature. Nowhere is this more evident than in the 2016 and 2022 CDC Guidelines for the prescription of opioids in the
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How misused terminology and biased studies may be misguiding our understanding of opioid addiction and mortality originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Richard A. Lawhern, PhD Tags: Conditions Medications Source Type: blogs
The Libertarian behind the World ’s First Freedom of the Press Act
Johan NorbergUNESCO has just designated the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act of 1766 a“Memory of the World.” It ’s a well‐deserved honor. This more than 250‐year old document, enacted during a period of strong parliamentary power in Sweden, is the world’s first freedom of the press act, signed into law ten years before the United States of America even existed.In defense of “unrestricted mutual enlightenment,” the1766 act created a constitutional right to publish one’s thoughts and ideas, abolished censorship (in everything but theological texts) and introduced the principle of public access to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 23, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Johan Norberg Source Type: blogs
Does Your Team Have These Modern Skills to Protect Healthcare Data?
The following is a guest article by Ameesh Divatia, Co-Founder and CEO at Baffle
Healthcare organizations were early adopters for protecting data in the modern environment — from stringent compliance regulations to the need to share health records between offices securely. However, protecting patient data has grown more complex in recent years with the influx of new regulations, cloud computing and myriad other factors.
The modern healthcare IT team must possess an array of emerging skills that allow practices to share data while ensuring that no one but the intended targets gain access to it. Let’s explore the evoluti...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy 21st Century Cures Act Ameesh Divatia asset management Baffle Baffle Inc. Bring Your Own Key B Source Type: blogs
