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Friday Links

Posted on February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Florida now has more jobs than New York. That’s likely because Florida avoided the NY lockdown approach to the pandemic.
Mainly because of health care commitments, the federal government will exhaust its ability to borrow in the next 25 to 50 years. Technical paper here.
The case for ending the Covid emergency now.
If Social Security makes a mistake and overpays you, they can come after you to reclaim the money – no matter how much or how long ago the mistake occurred. But if you make a mistake in not claiming all the SS or Medicare benefits you are entitled to, you generally can’t correct your mistake — even if it is caused by bad advice from government personnel. See Robbery by Red Tape.
This is priceless: After asking a question and getting a dumb answer, the user re-prompted GPT with “how would a super-smart AI answer this question?” He then got a smart answer.
Cato study: Obamacare increased low‐hours, involuntary parttime employment by 500,000 to 1 million workers, in retail, accommodations, and food services.

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New from Heritage

Posted on February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 by John C. Goodman

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Thursday Links

Posted on February 2, 2023February 2, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Video: A Canadian describes what socialized medicine is like in Canada. Get ready to hit your pause button to appreciate the examples.
If you used GoodRx to find bargains on your medications, it sent your sensitive health data to tech companies like Meta and Google to use for advertising, according to the FTC.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins found that 54 percent of people believe landlords should be allowed to deny housing to people with drug addiction and 64 percent believe employers should be allowed to deny them employment. But if addiction is defined as a “disability,” none of this would be legal.
What a Democrat aligned advocacy group wants from Congress on health care: Continue Obamacare subsidies for the rich; extend Medicare drug price controls to everyone else; hearing, dental and eye care benefits for Medicare enrollees – regardless of income and despite the fact that those benefits are available for free from Medicare Advantage plans.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on February 1, 2023 by John C. Goodman

The human circulatory system is 60,000 miles long.
While waiting for government price negotiations to begin, Pfizer Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. have raised prices on nearly 1,000 products so far this year.
Matt Holt discovers that he pays more for drugs than his insurer does – just like Medicare enrollees. Too bad he didn’t do more to help stop the congressional Democrats from rescinding the Trump executive order that would have ended this practice—at least for Medicare.
Are politicians playing doctor on marijuana, or are they just getting big brother out of the way?
JAMA: AI can’t be included as a coauthor on published articles.

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