{"id":2083,"date":"2024-11-21T00:53:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T00:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2024-11-21T00:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T00:53:29","slug":"speculation-on-rfk-jr-as-hhs-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"Speculation on RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2024\/11\/the-economic-powers-of-the-hhs-secretary.html\">Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>One of the problems with an RFK Jr. ascendancy is that his core views, which run strongly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2024\/11\/15\/rfk-jr-fda-health-care-companies-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">against<\/a>\u00a0vaccines and pharmaceuticals, make it unlikely that any of these reimbursement revisions will be done in a rational or scientific way. The best\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2019\/04\/frank-lichtenberg-and-the-cost-of-saving-lives-through-pharmaceuticals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evidence<\/a>\u00a0indicates that pharmaceuticals are a relatively cost-effective ways of saving lives, and conversely that many costly surgical procedures are not very\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.perplexity.ai\/search\/what-are-some-good-pieces-abou-q7G5cxv3Q.yDpvTHc8Kcxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">effective<\/a>. One of the main drawbacks of the US health-care system is often described as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Overtreated-Medicine-Making-Sicker-Poorer\/dp\/1582345791\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CHT2455JZIIU&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.N9DdiuLLVz-WvwScWMQhYNTRovsG02v4oCFESUEu7A7I4OXR5nxq6QUmlGatKctkpJYzI_sTPZ1nAq-OCcvMYLIytVJU-YsSehq_Tzjxy4k.KY_qwcZUzROZZbjlh8NgBiHjy4uEdtnmP-zEstflRYI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=overtreated&amp;qid=1731859203&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=overtreated%2Cstripbooks%2C81&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overtreatment<\/a>, yet some vaccines and drugs \u2014 the Covid vaccines,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-09-24\/ozempic-wegovy-other-glp-1-drugs-are-prices-really-outrageous?sref=htOHjx5Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GLP-1<\/a>\u00a0medications and HIV-AIDS treatments, to name just a few \u2014 are yielding very high returns.<br \/>The danger is that, with RFK Jr. at HHS, the US would restrain health-care spending in exactly the wrong areas. The human costs of such a mistake are obvious, but from a more narrow fiscal perspective, a sicker America would lead to even more serious budgetary problems. <\/p>\n<p>You can read his full Bloomberg article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-11-19\/rfk-jr-would-put-the-economy-at-risk-too\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution: One of the problems with an RFK Jr. ascendancy is that his core views, which run strongly against\u00a0vaccines and pharmaceuticals, make it unlikely that any of these reimbursement revisions will be done in a rational or scientific way. The best\u00a0evidence\u00a0indicates that pharmaceuticals are a relatively cost-effective ways of saving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}