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Author: John C. Goodman

Monday Links

Posted on June 16, 2025June 16, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Sam Altman on “The Gentle Singularity.”
  • Do more children get killed with firearms in states that have more permissive gun control laws? No (Just look at Chicago.)
  • KFF: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used junk science to defend U.S. policy changes on covid vaccines.
  • Air India Flight 17: 242 people onboard died, but one walked away.
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Saturday Links

Posted on June 14, 2025June 13, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Plusses and minuses of an aspirin a day.
  • Benefits of a Brazil nut a day.
  • Cutting funds for vaccine research (and spending them in better ways) may make sense.
  • American Action Forum on the MAHA report.
  • New York spends twice as much per person as Florida.
  • Out-of-pocket costs for a typical enrollee are 18–24 percent lower in Medicare Advantage than in traditional fee-for-service Medicare.
  • RFK, Jr. seems to have broken all his promises to Sen Cassidy.
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Friday Links

Posted on June 13, 2025June 12, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • “Routine childhood immunizations in the United States from 1994–2023 are estimated to have prevented around 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and more than 1 million deaths.”
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picks to replace the members of the vaccine advisory panel include vaccine skeptics.
  • Estimate: Across all causes of health care spending and disease burden, median spending was $114,339 per disability adjusted life year (DALY) averted between 1996 and 2016.
  • By 2028, the U.S. is projected to face a shortage of more than 73,000 nurse assistants (NAs) and 63,000 registered nurses (RNs) by 2030. Can AI relieve that?
  • America’s hospital system is conspicuously missing from the “waste, fraud, and abuse” targets of DOGE and the  House Republicans.
  • Democrats used to support work requirements for  welfare benefits.
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Thursday Links

Posted on June 12, 2025June 11, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • How Cato would reform Medicare.
  • Study: physical fitness is associated with lower mortality from cardiovascular disease, cancer and even accidents. (speculative)
  • Meta-analysis: cutting back on social media use does not conclusively lead to meaningful improvements in youth mental health.
  • AAF: Senate attempts to cut Medicare Advantage funding are a mistake.
  • Trump now opposes Medicaid money laundering by the states (taxing providers and then  giving the money back after it is matched) that got a big boost during his first administration.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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