Friday Links

Kamala’s Medicare for All plan would be costly. Very costly.

Around 60% of baby and toddler food items sold in major U.S. retailers fail to meet international nutritional guidelines.

1.81 billion people are “energy poor.”

University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan: Kamala Harris’s votes for ARP and IRA were responsible for at least half of the excess inflation experienced during the Biden presidency.

Medicare’s actuaries estimate because of the IRA, the average cost of providing drug coverage will rise by 179% next year. In an attempt to avert that, the Biden/Harris administration is planning  to give  Medicare Part D plans $70 billion, three-year “premium stabilization” program —  “a massive bailout to insurers to paper over the increased costs of the Inflation Reduction Act.”