2023 NDAA Amendments on Arms Sales
Jordan CohenOn July 5, 2022, members of the House introduced amendments to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which are now viewableonline. Out of the 1,172 amendments, 25 deal with restricting U.S. weapons sales abroad. These amendments can be broken down in three ways: creation and enforcement of new reporting requirements; protection and implementation of human rights measures in the U.S. arms sales process; and reducing dispersion of weapons away from the intended recipient.Reporting requirements are an easy way for Congress to start reform without needing to debate politically charged issues. For exam...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 7, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Iatrogenic disinformation
The Covid pandemic brought nuts with M.D. degrees out of the woodwork. Of course they were always around -- Viz. Mehmet Oz, who had a popular TV show he used to spread medical disinformation for years. Many physicians signed a petition to have has medical license pulled, or for Columbia to fire him, but neither happened. Now Richard Baron and Yul Ejnes in NEJM discuss the problem of how licensing boards should respond to physicians who spread disinformation, notably by social media since most of them don ' t have a TV show. (Of course, some of them worked for the Trump Administration and currently work for Ron DeSantis, a ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 7, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Limits of Independent State Legislature Theory
Andy CraigAt the end of a term with many high-profile and controversial decisions, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case next term that could upend election law in the United States. InMoore v. Harper, the court agreed to hear an argument known as the independent state legislature (ISL) theory. This case has the potential to have a wide-ranging impact and many election law experts aresounding the alarm.I have beencritical of the ISL theory and mostly unpersuaded of its merits, at least in its more radical forms with regard to elections. Helen White of Protect Democracy offersa good explanation of why originalists should ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 6, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Andy Craig Source Type: blogs
Minor Tariff Relief Appears To Be Coming; More Is Needed
Clark PackardOver the Fourth of July weekend,The Wall Street Journalreported that the Biden administration is likely to lift some tariffs on imports from China as Washington tries to combat inflation and Beijing reels from COVID ‐19‐related shutdowns. The report indicates that the tariff “pause” would likely cover consumer goods “such as clothing and school supplies, as well as launching a broad framework to allow importers to request tariff waivers. ” Politico, meanwhile, isreporting that the value of tariff relief will be a meager $10 billion out of the approximately $370 billion imposed by th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 6, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: Texas is the present future of abortion care
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
In this edition’s tidbits, I have to return to the stunning impact of the Dobbs ruling. We know will happen because it is already happening in Texas where the 6 week law was already being enforced in contravention of Roe v Wade.
Taxpayer money is going to “pregnancy crisis centers” that flat out lie to vulnerable patients about the impact o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Medical Practice OP-ED Physicians Abortion Dodd HIPAA roe Telehealth Texas Source Type: blogs
The Public Health Theory of Trump
Ezio Di Nucci (University of Copenhagen), The Public Health Theory of Trump, SSRN (2022): Successful public health interventions have, in recent decades, improved the health of the working classes in significant ways across much of the western world. Nevertheless, here... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 3, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Supreme Court Makes “Major” Improvement to Administrative Law in West Virginia v. EPA
William YeatmanBy a 6 –3 vote, the Supreme Court inWest Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency took an important step toward restoring constitutional balance to federal policymaking. ThoughWashington Post columnist George Will probably overstates the case in calling it the “term’s most momentous decision,” he is right that this is a big deal. As I discuss below, the Cato Institute perhaps played a role in this welcome result.So, what happened? Setting aside the case ’s backstory (explainedhere), the immediate result is that the EPA doesn ’t have the power to impose a nationwide cap...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: William Yeatman Source Type: blogs
Voting Republican is bad for your health
Literally. A study byWarraich HJ, Kumar P, Nasir K, Joynt Maddox KE, and Wadhera RK in BMJfinds this: There has actually been lots of previous research on this general question. As the authors note, " Previous studies have shown that counties that elect Republican candidates tend to experience worse health outcomes, such as fewer gains in life expectancy and increased rates of opioid prescription.56789, " so this is just further confirmation. As they summarize their fndings, " the mortality gap between white residents in Democratic versus Republican counties increased fourfold. Rural Republican count...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 24, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Merely expecting to feel stressed has a negative effect on our mood
By Emily Reynolds
Elections can be stressful. Research has looked into the distress of Americans when Trump was elected, and elections have also been linked to an increase in anxiety and stress, and poorer sleep quality. Most of this research, however, has looked at what happens after an election result, not before.
A new study takes a different look, asking how the approach of an election result can impact people’s mental health. Writing in the International Journal of Psychology, a team from North Carolina State University finds that simply anticipating election stress has a negative effect on our mood.
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Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Political Source Type: blogs
Reform Section 301 to Prevent Future Abuse
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo ObregonRecord ‐highinflationhas reportedly prompted President Biden toconsiderlifting at least some of the tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump on Chinese imports under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. As Cato scholars haverepeatedlywritten, the tariffs have imposed large costs on consumers, producers, and workers, so removing them would be a sensible policy. It would also be practical, as the law gives President Biden the authority to repeal them with the stroke of a pen. But as desirable as this solution is in the short term, our experience with these unilater...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 17, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Source Type: blogs
The Menace of Fiscal Inflation
ConclusionTo say that“inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” is not to say that fiscal policy doesn ’t matter. “Fiscal inflation” is indeed “a menace,” as Cochrane and others have argued. Few experts predicted the shift from low inflation before the pandemic to nearly 9 percent CPI inflation today. Policymakers largely ignored the implications of the post-2008 operating system, the close dance between cumulative federal deficits and M2 growth, and the risk of adhering to the Fed’s “lower for longer” recipe for its policy rate in the hope of stimulating asset markets and the economy wi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
Republican Health Policies Disproportionally Harm White Citizens in Their States
BY MIKE MAGEE
“As I’ve said before, I believe Dr. Ladapo is an anti-science quack who doesn’t belong anywhere near our state’s Surgeon General office, let alone running it. But now that he’s been confirmed, it’s my sincere hope that he and Governor DeSantis choose to focus on saving lives and preventing unnecessary illness instead of continuing their absurd promotion of conspiracy theories and opposition to proven public health measures — but I’m not going to hold my breath.”
If you identified these as the words of the former governor, and now Congressman Charlie Crisp, currently running to retake t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics ACA Affordable Care Act Charlie Crisp Medicaid Medicaid Expansion Source Type: blogs
Do Iran ’s Nuclear Advances Show the JCPOA Failed?
Justin LoganPolitico ’s Andrew Desiderio highlights a statement from Senator Bob Menendez (D ‑NJ), who has long been one of the most hawkish Democrats on Iran and opposed the JCPOA when it was signed:Iran now has enough enriched uranium to produce a nuclear weapon. This latest milestone returns us to a familiar question: At what point will the Administration acknowledge that Iran’s nuclear advances make a return to the 2015 JCPOA not in the United States’ strategic interest?… it is time for a comprehensive strategy to address Iran an d the threats it poses—Iran as it is, not the Iran we might hope for.Le...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Justin Logan 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
GAO Report Neglects to Mention the Cruelty of Limiting Short ‐Term Plans
Michael F. CannonThe Government Accountability Office has published report examining " short-term, limited duration " health insurance (STLDI). (That ' s what federal law calls such health plans. A better moniker would be "renewable term health insurance. " )Congress exempts STLDI plans from all federal health insurance regulations. As a result, premiums are often 90 percent lower than ObamaCare premiums and ObamaCare ' s preexisting-conditions provisions aren ' tconstantly making coverage worse for the sick in STLDI plans.In 2016, the Obama administration arbitrarily limited the duration of STLDI plans to 3 months. In 201...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 2, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
