From Independent Women's Forum <[email protected]>
Subject Weekly Capsule: Women's sports at risk, How a doctor's family deals with COVID risks, Senate price transparency bill, The impact of school closures
Date July 1, 2020 6:32 PM
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Applied to Title IX, Bostock will REQUIRE schools to let male athletes play on women's teams and complete against female athletes. The science is...

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"Americans overwhelmingly agree that it is important for workers to be able to stay home when they are sick and need to care for loved ones. The pandemic reminded us that we are tied together: Decisions made about whether to stay home don’t just impact individual families and business, but have implications for communities and our healthcare system."

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** The Threat to Women’s Sports ([link removed])
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Congress passed Title IX 48 years ago to expand opportunities for women and girls. Recently in ([link removed]) Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court held that sex discrimination occurs any time biological sex factors into an adverse decision ([link removed]) . Applied to Title IX, Bostock will REQUIRE schools to let male athletes play on women's teams and complete against female athletes. The science is clear and irrefutable: if females are forced to compete with and against males, they will lose valuable opportunities. This is not equal opportunity. This is male dominance.


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** The Impact of School Closures on Kids & Teens Due to COVID-19 ([link removed])
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A growing body of evidence ([link removed]) indicates that school closures place children and teens at considerable risk for a wide array of physical, emotional, and social harms that far outweigh the risk that they will catch or spread COVID-19. Policymakers considering whether and how to reopen schools this fall should consider the following data:
* Based on an analysis of data from six countries, children under 20 are half as susceptible to COVID-19 infection than adults.
* Infants, young children, and teenagers combined account for 0.06% of all reported deaths from COVID-19, according to the CDC.
* Schools are not likely to be settings for outbreak clusters and are not likely to be significant sources of transmission. In a review of COVID-19 clusters, only 4% (8 of 210) involved school transmission.
* It is doubtful whether school closures this spring helped save lives or even slowed the spread of the virus. Data from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore suggest that school closures did not help to control the epidemic.


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COVID-19 Could Spark an Education Revolution
* Surveys show many more parents are looking into homeschooling, especially with the frustrations of distance learning and the fact that many school districts may not resume normal classes in the fall.
* If millions choose to exercise school choice, whether through formal homeschooling or through a program like education savings accounts, it could cause an earthquake in the public school system that has felt empowered to ignore the wishes of parents.
* Many parents are seeing the curriculum their children are being taught for the first time, leading to dissatisfaction with some of the narratives being pushed on students about climate change, racism, sexuality, and other hot-button cultural topics.
* Whether students attend a traditional public school, a charter school, or a private school, or are learning at home, parents—not educational “experts,” politicians, or bureaucrats—should be in charge of what and how their children learn.
* If this difficult moment produces a silver lining, it will be parents taking back control over their children’s educations.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Our Education System
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Many Americans are understandably concerned by how expensive prescription drugs can be. In an effort to bring down these out-of-pocket costs, some contend that the U.S. should follow the example of foreign countries that have set strict limits on how much can be charged for pharmaceuticals.

Can you identify which of the following is NOT true about pharmaceutical price controls?

A: The cost of developing a new drug from start to finish is about $2.6 billion.
B: Americans pay more for prescription drugs than their European counterparts.
C: Price controls have little to no impact on innovation while improving access to care for those who need it most.
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** How My Medical Family Is Weighing Risk During the Pandemic ([link removed])
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My husband, a hospitalist, served several weeks this spring on COVID-19 services, donning a Darth Vader-esque mask and coming home to a “decontamination” routine. He mentioned that treating COVID-19 patients required heavy “System 2” thinking or critical thinking. It’s the kind of thinking that will absolutely wear you out. Our view for our family is that our probability of getting the virus is high. Anyone who’s been around toddlers knows they have a penchant for floor-licking. My husband, working at a hospital, is at a relatively high infection risk. But the probability that we face a high consequence (death or serious long-term health impact) is low for us.
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** Lawmakers Are Finally Taking Action on Price Transparency ([link removed])
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Our healthcare markets are dysfunctional and not competitive. We know price transparency is a critical part of fixing this. Sen. Mike Braun introduced “The PRICE Transparency Act” on Tuesday, which would require hospitals and insurance companies to share the prices of health care with patients upfront. Today, many patients get pricing information only after the fact, in an explanation of benefits. We would never agree to this when buying other goods and services. Health care should be no different. We should be able to compare prices and reviews and, when possible, shop around or at least plan for healthcare expenses.
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Within days of a federal court ruling that there is insufficient evidence to support claims that Roundup weed-killer is a human carcinogen, the maker of the popular herbicide agreed to pay up to $10.9 billion to settle with plaintiffs who claim that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, caused their cancer. Scientific regulatory agencies have concluded that glyphosate poses no public health risk and is not a human carcinogen when used properly. Settlements such as these can cause grave damage to a company’s reputation. Unfortunately, massive financial settlements also encourage plaintiffs’ lawyers to strike again, which is why the Wall Street Journal calls the Bayer settlement, “a shakedown for the history books.”
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