- As of 2021, the were 50 million slaves in the world. You can buy a Black woman in Sudan for $15.
- Mary Anastasia O’Grady: Zohran Mamdani is just like Fidel Castro, Juan Perón and, Hugo Chávez. (WSJ)
- Most “transgender” kids grow up to be gay. (WSJ)
- Behind the latest jobs report: Private-sector job creation was at a standstill in the majority of the economy.
- CMS plans to increase payments to MA plans by more than double what the Biden administration proposed.
Author: Pieter Vorster
Friday Links
- Of the world’s top pediatric hospitals, the United States claims more than a quarter – 28 percent.
- American patients had access to 85% of all drugs launched between 2012 and 2021. Canadians had access to just 45% of the drugs launched in that same period.
- A libertarian view of the proper role of public health.
- Claim: Patient care at University Hospitals Cleveland is nearly 30% cheaper than the national average.
- Obamacare fraud:
Between January 2024 and August 2024, CMS fielded 90,863 “complaints that consumers had their [Exchange] plan changed without their consent,” and another 183,553 “complaints that consumers were enrolled in [Exchange] coverage without their consent.” That’s nearly 300,000 reports of fraudulent enrollment in eight months — and that’s just among the states using the federal Exchange.
The state taxes Medicaid insurers and then makes higher payments to those same insurers with that tax revenue. The higher payments enable the state to claim additional federal matching dollars.
Wednesday Links
- How much does a black-market kidney cost? From $50K to $120K.
- More details on how covid information was censored.
- Our country’s ninth-largest export is blood.
- The Biden-Harris “infrastructure bill,” which authorized some $42 billion to expand high-speed connectivity to rural and inner-city areas, has hooked up approximately zero households to broadband service so far.
- What is wrong with the Harris proposals for small business?
- Kamala’s “health care “plan” … is 256 words long and consists largely of a recap of the Biden administration’s very limited accomplishments.