- David Henderson on the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
- Bill Gates: The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) together have saved about 37 million people since 2003. (WSJ)
- Joe Klein: It is hard to win elections when you hate your country.
- Andrew Biggs: Social Security is in trouble because the initial benefit is wage indexed.
- High school graduation rates are up; SAT scores are down. (We are handing out diplomas to students who can’t read.)
NYT: Medicare to Curtail Abusive Spending on Hyper-Expensive Bandages
Going after Medicare abuse is like playing whack a mole. Just when you think you have made some headway another mole pops out. The Biden Administration, and now the Trump Administration, is moving to limit the use – and limit the price paid – for so-called skin substitutes in Medicare. Skin substitutes are newfangled bandages.
The 1619 Project
You won’t learn from the “1619 Project” that slavery was practiced globally down through history, mostly among people of the same race, and long before the founding of the U.S. Nor will you learn that the trans-Saharan slave trade operated by Arabs involved a far larger number of African slaves than the trans-Atlantic slave trade operated by Europeans and lasted much longer.
Source: Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal
Wednesday Links
- “One recent estimate has 24 percent of women in the United States currently having or being treated for depression [with antidepressants] compared to 11 percent of men.”
- Study: universal basic income trial had zero impact on child outcomes.
- Biden’s Chief Economist has decided that federal debt is a problem.
- A Greenland shark can live 400 years or more.
- OpenEvidence’s proprietary algorithms search millions of peer-reviewed publications, including in top journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association to help doctors find the best answers fast, with full citations to papers so doctors can read more for themselves. The software is free for verified doctors to use and makes money through advertising—much like Google does.