Which has a greater cost to society, depression or addiction? The estimated burden on America is similar. The White House reported in 2014: The economic cost of drug abuse in the US was estimated at $193 billion in 2007, the…
Which has a greater cost to society, depression or addiction? The estimated burden on America is similar. The White House reported in 2014: The economic cost of drug abuse in the US was estimated at $193 billion in 2007, the…
Americans tend to be conservatives in the sense that we tend to be risk averse. We don’t want to change our system unless there is a really good reason. In the case of our current policy towards marijuana, there is…
Jon Walker wrote a wonderful critique of Obamacare that Kevin Drum published in pieces so I’m copying it below so that it is all in one place. 1. State control combined with zero direct incentives for the states to make…
Before becoming president, Donald Trump was a long-time proponent of single-payer health insurance (aka Medicare for All). That shouldn’t be surprising given that Trump was a liberal Democrat for most of his life until Obama was elected and then Trump’s…
On the one hand, deregulating the market for the pill would improve health, lower costs, reduce abortion, and eliminate a political football. On the other hand, it would reduce incomes for physicians and drug manufacturers, a small passionate minority thinks…
The Nobel Prize for medicine went to cancer researchers this week who developed immunotherapy drugs that can be miraculously effective, but as Julia Belluz reports, the prize is also a reminder of how expensive the cancer treatments they developed have…
The Washington Post food columnist, Tamar Haspel, argues that oats are the best superfood on the planet and everyone should eat oats for breakfast every day. I whole heartedly agree. I’m a bit of an oatmeal fanatic. It has been…
