- The Hauser Curve: Revenues as a share of GDP have been fairly steady, in the range of 16% to 20% of GDP for 100 years, whether the top tax rate was 90% or 28%.
- “Nearly 70% of cancer deaths come from cancers for which there is no recommended screening test at all. Pancreatic, ovarian, liver, stomach, esophageal and blood cancers often reveal themselves only after symptoms appear, when the disease has progressed and treatment options have narrowed.”
- Democratic Part D reform: “Medicare spending on prescription drugs grew roughly 50 percent faster than spending by private insurance from 2021 to 2025—even though Medicare did not cover GLP-1 drugs for weight loss until 2026. The rise in Medicare prescription drug costs similarly outstripped that in Medicaid and Medicare Part B (which pays for physician administered drugs).
- Blue states are increasingly babyless. The latest data show Vermont is at 1.27 births per adult woman, followed by Rhode Island (1.33), New Hampshire (1.35), Oregon (1.36), Massachusetts (1.38).
- No, you are not on indigenous land.
Author: John C. Goodman
Thursday Links – 24 September 2026
- The government is trying to stop US citizens from importing drugs from Canada.
- Phantom ACA enrollees explained.
- More on phantom ACA enrollees.
- Not going far enough?
Congressional Budget Office estimates that there are perhaps 2.3 million cases of the federal government issuing improper Obamacare premium subsidies, but the administration is canceling just 750,000. Likewise, every year since 1990, the Government Accountability Office has warned Congress that Medicare poses a high risk of “waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement
Monday Links – 21 September 2026
- The five second rule is a myth.
- Visit with an out-of-state doctor, Covid era rules allowing interstate telemedicine need to be extended – forever.
- Loopholes in the ACA: Some on the left want employers to pay for them.
- The Smithsonian’s worst sin: Using taxpayer funds to advocate for progressive positions on contemporary policy issues, such as those concerning transgender rights, illegal immigration, and abortion.
- AI can detect cancer years before symptoms appear.
Saturday Links – 18 September 2026
The article says the existing FDA method failed to flag possible associations involving myocarditis, pericarditis, Bell’s palsy, tinnitus and other reported conditions. When CDC eventually performed the PRR analysis in 2022, according to BMJ’s examination, hundreds of adverse events met CDC’s statistical alert criteria, even though CDC Director Rochelle Walensky had said the analysis found “no additional unexpected safety signals.”
- Pharma preparing to test and manufacture drugs in space.
- “The average British worker now makes about the same hourly wage as a functionally illiterate American.”
- Benedic N. Ippolito: How to reform Medicare Part D.
- The Uncertain Future of Medicare Part D and Options for Reform
- Chris Jacobs: Obamacare refunds that make sense.