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Author: John C. Goodman

The Cost of Lockdowns

Posted on January 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman

A new Stanford study looking at the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress found “eighth-grade math fell for every state, with a national average decline of eight NAEP scale score points” or enough to wipe out all the gains made since 2000. So much for “no child left behind,” and other slogans that were going to fix our public schools.

We will continue to pay for the lockdowns for years to come. “Students on average face 2 to 9 percent lower lifetime income” depending on where they went to school and the states are estimated “to face a gross domestic product that is 0.6 to 2.9 percent lower each year for the remainder of the twenty-first century.”

From the Committee to Unleash Prosperity

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Friday Links

Posted on January 20, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Reason (magazine) investigation: CDC used Facebook to silence Covid dissent.
  • More than 1,000 nursing homes reached a 75% infection rate during the Covid pandemic.
  • For: more off label uses of existing drugs.
  • IRA bill is already affecting drug development – negatively.
  • What it will cost to attend this year’s Super Bowl game: almost $9,000.
  • The Manchin/Capito Trust Act would force Congress to do what it doesn’t want to do: Tackle our unfunded entitlement liabilities.
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Thursday Links

Posted on January 19, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Half of all Medicare beneficiaries are now in Medicare Advantage plans.
  • Gallup: 38% say they or a family member put off medical care because of costs – the highest number in 22 years.
  • Cato: Black civil servants earned approximately 3.4 – 6.9 percentage points less because of the segregationist policies of  Woodrow Wilson – the 20th century’s most prominent “progressive.”
  • Mark Cuban’s online Cost Plus Drug Co. as 2 million customers. Cuban says the pharmacy could have saved his Dallas Mavericks basketball team $146,000. So why didn’t they?
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Wednesday Links

Posted on January 18, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Covid study: almost no form of pandemic preparedness helped to ameliorate or shorten the pandemic. Compared to other countries, the United States did not perform poorly because of cultural values such as individualism, collectivism, selfishness, or lack of trust.
  • Are science and technology becoming less disruptive?
  • MLK Day studies reviewed, including this finding: Slavery played no major role in the US economic growth.
  • Is the decline of religion causing a rise in “deaths of despair”?
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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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