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Monday Links

Posted on October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 by John C. Goodman

Against killing drug smugglers on speed boats. (NYT)

FREOPP: To end the  government shutdown, let heath plans age rate their premiums and create reinsurance. (WaPo)

Study: The poorest Americans die, on average, nine years earlier than the wealthiest Americans.

Premiums on healthcare.gov set to rise by 30%: “Without the expiring subsidies, healthy people will drop out.”

Is the feminization of society the reason for the rise of wokeness?

2 thoughts on “Monday Links”

  1. Bob Hertz says:
    October 29, 2025 at 4:31 pm

    I’ve been saying for a long time that the gov’t should help finance the premiums for the already-sick enrollees. Avik Roy agrees….but my question is, “how far will his proposed $10 billion subsidy really go?”

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  2. Bob Hertz says:
    October 30, 2025 at 4:07 pm

    Here is an estimate from an admittely liberal think tank of what a fully funded high risk pool would really cost…..

    ” In 2010, 35 state-based high-risk pools spent $2.4 billion to cover just 221,879 people.

    Estimates published by the Commonwealth Fund show that covering all uninsured people with preexisting conditions in a national pool would have cost the federal government between $91.5 billion (in 2010 dollars) and $178 billion (in 2014 dollars) per year.”

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