- Cost and benefits of legalizing pot: The economic benefits are broadly distributed, while the social costs may be more concentrated among individuals who use marijuana heavily. Recommended.
- Capitation v. fee-for-service medicine: fewer visits and fever services.
- Alex Tabarrok on “deaths of despair.”
- Ending homelessness: the case for “Housing First.” Timothy Taylor is always good, but I think I disagree with this.
Author: Pieter Vorster
Paying People Not to Work
The March 2021 American Rescue Plan … extended a program that added $300 each week to a state’s standard [unemployment] benefit. A separate part of the bill expanded eligibility … to workers such as the self-employed.
Saturday Links
- To keep the doctor away, try 4,000 steps a day.
- Medicaid expansion states attracted more than twice as many able-bodied adults as predicted — leading to cost overruns topping $66 billion. (WSJ)
- A toe, foot or leg is cut off by a doctor about 150,000 times a year in America, making the United States a world leader of these amputations.
- Your prospects are better if your surgeon is female.
- Scientists recreated a Pink Floyd song by reading the brain signals of listeners.
- As many as two-thirds of US physicians experience burnout and this decreases the quality of care and increases the average health care costs.
Monday Links
- The food stamp program doubled in size during th pandemic, yet its 42 million recipients have less healthy diets and are more obese than other Americans.
- The typical Medicare beneficiary has access to around 40 Medicare Advantage plans. (WSJ)
- Medicaid in NY: volatile budget swings.
- GOP answer to drug shortages: exempt generics from the 340b discounts until the shortage is over. (gated)
- The case for drinking. HT: David Henderson