The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
August 04, 2022 Edition-----The war seems to grind on sadly and Pres. Biden is having a second round with COVID as unprecedented weather happens all over the US. It all feels rather like ‘the end of days’!In the UK we see an increasing chance of a third female PM being elected as the country seems to be struggling. We do need to remember however the UK remains a significant power with nuclear weapons and home-grown nuclear submarines!In OZ we have had last week working out how to progress the First Nations ‘Voice’ as we wrap up the 1st session of Parliament for the new Government. Comments welcome on how you think ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
NHS Pension Scheme: proposed uplifts to the member contribution tier thresholds
Department of Health and Social Care -Further to the consultation NHS Pension Scheme: proposed changes to member contributions from 1 April 2022 and the associated regulations, this consultation document sets out how the pensionable earnings thresholds in the member contribution structure will be uplifted to account for the Agenda for Change pay increase. The consultation document also includes part of a table that was omitted from and the draft regulations contain technical amendment to correct this omission. The closing date for comments is 12 August 2022.Respond onlineDepartment of Health and Social Care - consultations...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 20, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Colombia ’s Establishment Wins Again, But at What Price?
Daniel RaisbeckAccording to the international media, Gustavo Petro, the 21st century socialist who won Colombia ’s presidential election on Sunday, was an “anti ‐establishment” candidate. The description would be accurate if the Colombian establishment still consisted of august figures such as Roberto Urdaneta, an upper‐class poo‐bah who, unelected, ruled the country between 1951 and 1953. He was rumored to spend as much time in the Jockey Club as in the pres idential palace.Colombia has changed since then. The establishment is nowmade up of left ‐wing academics, woke journalists or “influencer...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel Raisbeck Source Type: blogs
55 Years of Loving
David BoazSunday, June 12, is the 55th anniversary of the Supreme Court ’s Loving decision, and there is fear in the land that Justice Alito and the Supreme Six will move on from potentiallyoverturning Roe v. Wade to dismantling marriage rights. Those fears are overstated, but first let ’s take a moment to remember the Loving case.It may be hard to believe that as late as 1967 some states did not allow people of different races to marry. But so it was. Mildred Jeter, a black woman (though she also had Native American heritage and may havepreferred to think of herself as Indian), married Richard Loving, a ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Hey, Old Guys!
BY KIM BELLARD
OK, how many of you had on your women-in-power bingo cards that, in 2022, Sheryl Sandberg would be out at Facebook but Queen Elizabeth II would still be Queen? It’s the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, marking seventy years on the throne. She’s getting a lot of love for that tenure, but it makes me think, geez, some people just don’t know when to step away.
Perhaps what sparked my cynicism about the Queen was an op-ed by Yuval Levin, Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old? Dr. Levin is, of course, referring to the U.S., and he’s spot-on about our governanc...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Baby Boomers Kim Bellard Politics Source Type: blogs
Colombians Voted for Change, but Not as Expected
Daniel RaisbeckAccording to theFinancial Times, Colombia ’s current presidential election “could change Latin America” if it ends with the victory of Gustavo Petro, a former member of theM ‑19, an urban guerrilla group, andconfidant of the lateHugo Ch ávez. Petro, theFT argues, would lead “the most radical government in the country’s modern history.” Until now, Colombia has been a staunch U.S. ally in South America while avoiding Ch ávez’s brand of “21st century socialism.”Petro, who is praised by his friends for his “solid Marxist foundation,” plans to ban allexploration of oil, Colombi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 3, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel Raisbeck Source Type: blogs
Impromptu Questions on the SEC ’s Climate Risk Proposal, Part 2
C. Wallace DeWittContinuing this week ’s series of questions for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the recentrule proposal to enhance and standardize climate ‐related disclosures for investors:Did anyone ask retail investors?The SEC and its commissioners and senior officers are always at great pains to signal their solicitousness toward the “retail investor,” or “Mrs.& Mr. 401k, ” as former Chairman Jay Clayton enjoyed saying. Yet the section of the proposing release entitled “The Growing Investor Demand for Climate‐Related Risk Disclosure and Related Information” is entirelys...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: C. Wallace DeWitt Source Type: blogs
The state of ageing 2022
This report includes analysis of public and government data sets and shows that prospects as we age are getting much worse amidst a steep rise in pensioner poverty. A further 200,000 people of pension age fell into poverty in the last year, data shows. The report finds that the number of people aged 65 and over in England is set to increase by over 20 per cent over the next ten years.ReportCentre for Ageing Better - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 18, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
NHS Pension Scheme: proposed amendments to continue the suspension of restrictions on return to work introduced by the Coronavirus Act 2020 (Section 45) – response to consultation
Department of Health and Social Care -This consultation response sets out the continuation of retire and return easements in the NHS pension scheme which will take effect immediately following the expiry of Section 45 of the Coronavirus Act (2020). It also confirms that these temporary easements will run to 31 October 2022.Consultation responseDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 10, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Consultations Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Member Contributions etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
This report sets out the reasons for changing the amount that members contribute to the NHS pension scheme. It takes into account the desirability of not making any changes at this point in time. This report is a statutory report and has been laid before Parliament.Policy paperDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 10, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
NHS Pension Board annual report: 2020 to 2021
Department of Health and Social Care -This is the sixth annual report by the NHS Pension Board, covering the period April 2020 to March 2021. It covers the board ’s objectives, membership, and terms of reference.ReportDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 27, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 27th 2021
We report that whereas microglia are characterized by marked gene-level alterations related to negative regulation of protein phosphorylation and phagocytic vesicles, astrocytes show activation of enzyme- or peptidase-inhibitor signaling after detectable changes in BBB permeability. We also identify several genes enriched in these pathways that are notably altered after BBB breakdown. Our data reveal that microglia and astrocytes play an active role in maintaining BBB stabilization and corralling infiltrating cells, and thus might potentially function in ameliorating the lesions and neurologic disabilities in CNS diseases....
Source: Fight Aging! - December 26, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Dry Commentary on the Collision of Increasing Lifespan and Myopic Economic Regulation
Enforced retirement is a great iniquity, in those countries where it exists. This is true of any attempt by the powers that be to thrust their idea of how a life should be lived onto tens of millions of people, all capable of making their own choices. Progress in medicine has for decades created longer, healthy lives, a slow upward trend that will accelerate now that the research community is earnestly attempting to treat the causes of aging. Those parts of the state concerned with ordering society, work, and finance at scale move far less rapidly. Much of the ink spilled on the topics of demographic aging, retirement, pen...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 23, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 29th 2021
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Source: Fight Aging! - November 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Notes on the Recent Longevity Week in London
The yearly Longevity Week events in London are organized by Jim Mellon's network of allies, to promote the longevity industry and the concept of working towards therapies to treat aging as a medical condition. Sadly I could not attend this year, a combination of conflicting events in the US and it being too soon after conferences started up again post-COVID-19 to commit to international travel. Fortunately, one can still find a few notes on the proceedings online, and video of presentations will usually follow.
This week was "Longevity Week" with numerous events organised in the UK on what we now call "geroscience...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
