- If Medicaid’s current 5 percent annual growth rate were restrained to 3 percent, a 10 year savings of over $900 billion would result.
- Have scientists discovered life on another planet?
- Why poverty is not the cause of child abuse.
- Last year, the state [CA] chancellor’s office estimated 25 percent of community college applicants were bots.
- Of the ten most-visited graves in the USA, just one is the resting place of a president. The rest are all the graves of entertainers.
- Why do middle aged men have so few friends?
Author: John C. Goodman
Monday Links – 28 April 2025
- How Obamacare changed the health insurance marketplace.
- Worker pay and worker productivity are almost perfectly correlated.
- Florida GOP investigates a $10 million Medicaid contractor settlement payment that went to Casey DeSantis’s foundation.
- Yale has one administrator for every undergraduate student.
Saturday Links
- AAF: tariffs are especially bad for small business.
- Site neural payments would save taxpayers an estimated $150 billion over 10 years.
- Historically, Washington covered about 60% of Medicaid costs. Today, Washington pays nearly 75%.
- Merely requiring states to more frequently check whether current beneficiaries still qualify would save federal taxpayers $115 billion over a decade.
- The prophet’s paradox: The better policymakers manage a potential crisis, the more likely it is that the public will perceive their actions as overreactions.
- Breakthrough: scientists send a quantum message.
- AEI: Fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid and Medicare.