Alcohol More Lethal than Heroin, and Other Links
Fred Upton: Over 4,100 pages of regulations have been issued since the ObamaCare was signed into law. A dozen new regulations were not even subject to any kind of public scrutiny before taking effect.
Why do insurers avoid low-income Medicare beneficiaries? Medicare payments are 8 percent higher for these beneficiaries, but the costs are 21 percent more. Got it.
Environmental regulations (e.g., trash disposal) are much harsher for big business than, say, for homes. Robin Hanson asks if it shouldn’t be the other way around. (via Econlog)
This shows how crazy our laws are on controlled substances. Alcohol is legal and everything else is prohibited.
We don’t regulate homes the way we do businesses becasue once people realized how absurd the regulations are they would rise up and demand their repeal.
Obama Care is regulating us to death and it really hasn’t even started.
The research that found alcohol worse than hard drugs is ridiculous. For instance, the research found heroin, cocaine and crystal meth were more deadly for individuals; but alcohol worse for society because it is widely used. By the same token, cars are bad for society because they are so widely used.
The implication is clear. Either go back to alcohol prohibition or legalize everything.
Can’t see why I should have to ask permission from the state before I ingest something.
No one mentioned pot in their comments. It is ranked low on the list, which to me indicates that we are really silly for making it so taboo. As for the dangers of alcohol, I would rather meet an alcoholic in a dark alley than a crack head.
About the trash: the reason for the difference is the difficulty of enforcement. But there are a lot of cities that are now enforcing trash laws. I for one think the household waste is probably pretty bad. Look at how many of us buy a new computer, cell phone, or printer every year. Not everyone cares enough to recycle. Not to mention all of the packaging waste. I think we will see major changes in the way we consume in the next decade. There is no reason to wrap everything we buy in a think layer of plastic.
It is important to tell the FDA regulates drugs and we can eat and we need to take painkillers because there is a high growth Findrxonline says people who take drugs in an inappropriate manner, I hope can be regulated and that the FDA can Inadequate control this growth.