Monday Links

How the Eugenics Movement found its way into American law. (Missing: the word “progressive.”)

Cato: 8 reforms for Medicaid. Missing: giving money to the beneficiaries and allowing direct primary care.

“Two years into the pandemic, more than 150,000 US nursing home residents had died of COVID-19 – roughly 10% of the total U.S. nursing home population. Sadly, well-intentioned lockdowns made things worse.”

Share of GDP spent on long term care varies from under 1% in Spain to over 4% in the Netherlands. Lots of data from a study by Gruber, et. al.