Numbers
No, I ' m not jumping ahead on the Bible reading. We ' re still going to slog through Leviticus. This post is about the only subject we ' re allowed to discuss nowadays, the coronavirus.Every year, about 57 million people die worldwide. That is the normal background rate of death. It comes to more than 156,000 deaths every day. So far, worldwide, there have been a total of 3,884 deaths ascribed to the novel coronavirus. That is about 2.5% of all the deaths that normally occur in asingle day.In the United States, in a normal year, there are more than 2.8 million deaths. That comes to 7,708 deaths every day. So far, in the U...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 9, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Understanding #Medicare4All & The Democratic primaries
By MATTHEW HOLT
Since Saturday’s Nevada primaries, confusion seems to be reining about how Bernie Sanders seems to be winning. Time (and not a lot more of it) will tell who actually ends up as the Democratic nominee. But the progressive side (Bernie + Warren) is doing much better than the moderate side (Biden/Butt-edge-edge/Klobuchar) expected, while we wait to see how the Republican side of the Democratic primary (Bloomberg) does in an actual vote. The key here is the main policy differential between the two sides, Medicare For All.Don’t get too hung up in the details of the individual plans, especially as...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Politics THCB Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren Matthew Holt Medicare For All polling Source Type: blogs
Doctor Doom prognosticates again
Nouriel Rubini is the economist nicknamed " Dr. Doom " because he correctly predicted the 2007-2008 financial crisis and the resulting Great Recession.Now he ' s at it again. This time, however, it ' s not just one thing. He ' s seeing geopolitical stresses, notably the quadruple confrontations of the U.S. with China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. He ' s seeing the coronavirus. He ' s seeing natural disasters associated with climate change. I don ' t know what he ' s on about with the abnormal seismic activity and undersea volcanoes, but he ' s got enough to legitimately worry about.The situation regarding coronavirus is b...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 23, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Vice Chair Quarles ’ Stigma Problem
George SelginSpeaking to NYU ' s " Money Marketeers " last week, Randy Quarles, the Fed ' s Vice Chair for Supervision, shared his views on Fed policy, and particularly on steps he thinks the Fed should take to reduce the size of its balance sheet.Perhaps better than anyone else at the Fed, Mr. Quarles understands the role that liquidity requirements play in propping-up banks ' demand for excess reserves, and how those requirements foiled the Fed ' s attempt to get the quantity of such reserves substantially below its crisis-era peak.Rather than accept that defeat, Mr. Quarles wants the Fed to try again, after first taking...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Strategies to Support Parents Caring for Adult Children with Disabilities
Parents caring for their adult children with communication disorders walk a tight rope. They precariously inch along the wire of life, balancing their own responsibilities plus those of their children. They also balance myriad schedules, health care professionals, therapies, medications, and special equipment necessary for activities of daily living.
Many of these visionary parents rejected the prevailing past trends to institutionalize their children. These parents might have been active in making sure their children received appropriate services in school, or home schooled. Many also advocated to change laws improving e...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 31, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nola Radford Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
January 30 2020 Edition.-----In Australia, with Parliament to return in the next week or so, we have the Sen. Bridget McKenzie saga and the bushfires competing for top billing. For what it is worth both are pretty awful and distressing in their own ways. Sadly anything hopeful and uplifting seems to be drowning with ongoing rancour regarding our national treatment and recognition of our ‘first peoples’.
It is also hard to believe Australia is going to escape a recession with tourism stuffed by the coronavirus and bushfires and the economic damage we are seeing internally with the fires and national morale. We are in de...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 29, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
More Evidence that the CRA Doesn ’t Always Help Low‐Income Communities. But Proposed Changes Will Improve It
Diego ZuluagaThe Community Reinvestment Act issupposed to ensure that banks lend to low- and moderate-income households wherever they operate. But there are reasons to doubt its effectiveness.In theWashington Post this summer, I reported findings (from a forthcoming paper with Andrew Forrester) that more than two-thirds of recent home mortgages in the District of Columbia for which banks can get CRA points went to high- rather than low-income borrowers. This is because current CRA regulations count loans to low-income borrowersand loans made in low-income census tracts (Figure 1a). D.C. has rapidly gentrified in recent yea...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 28, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Diego Zuluaga Source Type: blogs
How Parents Are Helping Their Young Adult Children — and Getting Judged for It
Conclusion
All told, young adults are getting more help from their parents now than they were decades ago. But they are leading very different lives, and both they and their parents are mostly fine with the current arrangements. Maybe everyone else should be less judgmental. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - November 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. Tags: College Family General Money and Financial Parenting Financial Independence helicopter parenting Millennials Young Adulthood Source Type: blogs
Stop the Presses! or, How the Fed Can Avoid Reserve Shortages without Bulking-Up, Part 1
George SelginThe FOMC should forget about r* for the moment and focus on … the supermassive black hole at the center of global dollar funding markets.–Zoltan Poszar, 21 August, 2019A few weeks ago, as part of its effort to prevent overnight rates from rising above the Fed's target range, and especially to avoiddramatic overnight rate spikes like the one that occurred in mid-September,the Fed announced that it would soon begin acquiring assets again. Over the course of the next two quarters, the Fed plans to purchase $60 billion in Treasury securities each month, or a total of somewhere between $250 and $300 billion, ad...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 12, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
First Look at Latest National Test Scores: Is It Cultural?
Neal McCluskeyThe latest National Assessment of Educational Progress —the “Nation’s Report Card”—scoresare out, and they aren ’t encouraging. But how discouraged should we be?The main NAEP tracks national, state, and selected local scores back to the early 1990s, though there have been some changes that have affected comparability among years, and not all states have participated every year. As you can see below, this year saw average scores drop in 4th and 8th grade reading, and 8th grade math, since 2017, but rise a tad in 4th grade math. Over the years, math has seen much more encouraging growth than reading...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 30, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
Immigrant Share Didn ’t Rise For the First Time Since Recession
David BierPresident Trump campaigned against immigrants in 2016, and it appears that he managed a major victory. The Census Bureau released its American Community Survey (ACS)estimate of the U.S. population for July 2018 today, finding that immigrant share of the population —foreigners born abroad to noncitizens—remained flat from July 2017 to July 2018. As seen in Figure 1, this was the first time since the Great Recession in 2008 that ACS has found no increase in the foreign-born share.If the immigrant share had remained flat in 2018 because the total U.S. population jumped, it would be less of an issue, but that was...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Poll: 59% of Americans Have Favorable Views of Capitalism; 59% Have Unfavorable Views of Socialism
Emily EkinsThe Cato 2019 Welfare, Work, and Wealth National Survey finds that Americans continue to have more favorable attitudes toward “capitalism” than “socialism.” However, groups vary significantly in their reactions to the terms. A majority (59%) of Americans have favorable views of the word “capitalism,” while 39% have an unfavorable view of it . In reverse, 39% of Americans have a favorable view of the word “socialism,” while 59% view socialism negatively.Full survey results and report found here.Democrats Feel More Favorable toward Socialism Than CapitalismDemocrats stand out with a majority (64...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 26, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Emily Ekins Source Type: blogs
Hong Kong Protests and the Political Effects of an “Exit” Option
Alex NowrastehSparked by a Chinese extradition bill that would have made it possible for people in Hong Kong to be tried in the mainland ’s justice system, protesters in Hong Kong have demonstrated against Beijing for100 days as of this week. Since starting, the protests have grown to include a broader critique of the Chinese communist government ’s policies in Hong Kong. In anticipation of a potential government crackdown, no doubt influenced by fear of a repeat of themassacre at Tiananmen Square 30 years ago, the option for protesters and their families to leave seems increasingly important.One of the potential downs...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Why are diabetes-related complications on the rise?
Diabetes has grown to become one of the most important public health concerns of our time. A review by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has shown that the number of affected people has quadrupled in the last three decades. Type 2 diabetes (T2D), a type of diabetes traditionally occurring in adults and associated with obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, is now the ninth leading cause of death worldwide. It therefore comes as no surprise that this rapidly emerging epidemic is giving rise to a profusion of diabetes-related complications.
What are the usual diabetes-related complications?
As diabetes is a systemic ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: George King, MD Tags: Diabetes Health Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 5, 2019 Edition.-----In the US we see Trump going on as usual with all sorts of changes of mind and inconsistency. The trade war is worsening and a global recession looms. Trump knows he must prevent a recession or loose the 2020 election – so we know he will be trying I believe. Trade talks are back on so markets are up again!Boris is playing dangerous games with Parliament and the outcome is still unclear.With multiple losses in Parliament its not looking at all settled at present.In OZ we have a draft religious freedom law and b oth sides do not like it – so it is probably about right. Otherwise we have co...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 4, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
