Akiva Malamet, Bautista Vivanco, Michael F. Cannon, Cato at Liberty, August 11, 2025.
excerpt:
Although Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs help putters lose weight before they have an impressive price tag on the memorable drug (among many other promising uses). For Thos, which pays from pocket, a month’s supply costs around $1,000.
Congress has banned Medicare from subsidies for anti-obesity drugs, but allows LPG-1 drugs to treat diabetes and cardiovascular disease (a specific subset of its beneficiary population). The Congressional Budget Office has studied the budgetary impact of allowing Medicare to subsidize anti-obesity drugs. We concluded that subsidizing GLP-1 drug obesity would cost a net cost of $31.5 billion between 2026 and 2034.
and:
Recently, my colleague Jeffrey Singer argued that Congress should be able to remove FDA barriers for compounding interest in pharmacies. Singer also highlighted the benefits of filling prescription requirements. Together, these reforms have made competition significantly more intense and make LPG-1 more accessible.
In a competitive market, price-sensitive patients have put downward pressure on the prices of medical products and services they need or need. Medicare, Medicaid, and employer-sponsored health insurance tax exclusions create multiple levels of separation between patients and prices for medical products and services. The more stupid patients get the price of care, the more they become lenders they put in their providers to lower the price. This makes healthcare more expensive and accessible to everyone.
August 11, 2025, Cato of Liberty, David J. Beer.
excerpt:
Migrant workers seeking green cards have shown legal permanence in the US, but face almost three and a half years of meetings to pass government regulations. If you pay the $2,805 fee, this wait time can be reduced to 2.8 years only. Since 2016, the government has added an average green card process for over 18 months. This needs to be changed to compete in America.
Processing delays come on time to wait for the green card cap slot to be available with annual green card cap (this is for many years). Also, do not include the time spent competing with regulations prior to the initial filling step. This familiar period can take several months.
DRH comment: I got my green card in 1977 and it took me just a few months, so I’m very happy.
August 11, 2025, by Liberty’s Kato and Mike Fox.
excerpt:
Rachel Berkow, professor of NYU Law, writes an extraordinary new book, Justice Justice Assawned: How the Supreme Court ignored the Constitution and allowed for massive imprisonment. This is a silly charge of the ORT judicial system’s conspiracy in the dramatic expansion of imprisonment over decades of pasting. Changes in law judges have created a new status quo. The United States, 5% of the world’s population, includes 25% of prisoners.
Barkow’s Centralis is that the Supreme Court has failed to carry out its core functions. That is to protect individual freedom against the power of the state’s enclosure. Even in words, it masked public safety and masked this failure. As Barkow explains, the court refused to “post the police.” If government oversight fails, the abuse of Egregius authority is not checked. The failure of the Court’s Constitutional Enforcement GU ensures that mass incarceration allowed the transfer.
DRH Note: I didn’t notice until I started posting, but three of the weekly highlights come from one source from Cato on Liberty. Good for them. As it will be fourth, I will refrain from posting it and posting links to the excellent forum held by Indegage by the Independent Institute.
Jeff Hammel and Phil Magnes, Independence Institute, August 13, 2025.
Jeff does a great job of the question and Phil knocks it out of the park with his answer. It’s truly amazing how the New York Times sunk.
We recommend listening at 1.25 speed. While you won’t miss much by skipping the Q&A that starts around 42:00 points, there are interesting questions (and useful answers) about how Abe Lincoln thought he had migrated slaves.
Even if you don’t have much time to listen, check out the story of the New York Times Fact Checker at 15:14.
However, my favorite line that gave Meebumps is 12:34.
