Health

Here’s some of what I’ve been reading from outside Australia recently, along with a few short thoughts on each.

Would you choose cheaper medicines today, or incentives for innovation that could save millions of lives in the future?

This update has become something of a weekly policy analysis wrap, given the flurry of announcements we’re getting ahead of a federal election that now looks like it’ll be held on or before 12 April (today is the deadline for a 29 March election to be called).

The fallout from the first Trump 2.0 tariffs has continued into the week, with the latest casualty (other than global equities) being the risky crypto that had been bid up on what was ‘supposed’ to be a market-friendly Trump government:

I trust everyone’s nice and refreshed from the summer break! Lots of interesting things to discuss today, starting with some positive-sounding housing policy news from NSW.

Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week’s happenings that probably didn’t need a full post.

The vaping crackdown will impose huge costs on users, drive some to the black market and force others to smoke more cigarettes, despite vapes being far less harmful than smoking. Instead of prohibition, regulate vapes like alcohol.

Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week’s happenings that probably didn’t need a full post.