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Author: John C. Goodman

Thursday Links

Posted on January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Are family leave policies keeping women’s wages down?
  • Study: Medicare Advantage is substantially better than traditional Medicare for diabetes.
  • GOP House to investigate federal funding of gain-of-function research.
  • Asian-Americans have a life expectancy of 85.7, compared to the US average of 79.1. (“I suspect that highly educated Asian Americans have a life expectancy that is absolutely off the charts.”)
  • Why was there a surge of traffic deaths in the first year of the pandemic?
  • Why is the FDA hostile to personalized tests?
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Wednesday Links

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Pfizer board member pressured Twitter to suppress info on natural immunity and low Covid risk to children.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated an overall decline in religious attendance. Arnold Kling extends to observation to the reluctance of employees to return to work and the disengagement of college students.
  • Now we learn. WaPo: Russian trolls on Twitter had little impact on 2016 voters.
  • Solution to Obamacare’s high premiums and narrow networks: Let people purchase plans from Puerto Rico and other US territories from  established insurers – like Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Humana and BlueCross BlueShield — which already do business in at least one territory and have provider networks in Arizona.
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Tuesday Links

Posted on January 10, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • How the Romans chose new leaders: Of the 69 rulers of the unified Roman Empire, from Augustus (d. 14 CE) to Theodosius (d. 395 CE), 62% suffered violent death.
  • Scott Sumner: Nationalism is hazardous to your health.
  • Paul Ehrlich promoted more fake predictions on “60 Minutes.”
  • WaPo: Social Security’s is using of archaic job-availability lists to deny benefits to obviously disabled people.
  • WaPo: Social Security is imposing of astronomical penalties on people, many poor and disables, for spending checks mistakenly sent them by Social Security.
  • The far more egregious financial malfeasance that WaPo missed:  the huge fraud Social Security has committed against 13,000 plus widow(er)s who collectively have been swindled out of $130 million.
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Saturday Links

Posted on January 7, 2023January 6, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Dr. Marty Makary: devastating critique of NIH and Fauci.
  • How Twitter rigged the Covid debate.
  • David Henderson solution for the Southwest airlines debacle: Let foreign carriers compete in our domestic market.
  • Can you actually eat a discarded Christmas tree?
  • No tailgating at the national College Football championship game?  This is College Football’s answer to Ebeneezer Scrooge.
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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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