New York Times reporter, Sarah Kliff tries to explain Republican’s motivation for recent ACA and Medicaid legislation. She believes that Republicans share two core beliefs about health coverage. First, health coverage should be tied to employment. Second, health coverage is nonessential.
Wednesday Links
- In Utah, “a person convicted of a capital offense” shall have the option of suffering death “by being shot, hanged, or beheaded.”
- Arnold Kling on Jeffrey Slinger’s new book.
- Venus Williams says she returned to tennis to be able to afford her health insurance.
- Can drones replace law enforcement?
- The wait for “Abundance” at the D.C. Public Library is more than 300 people long for a hard copy, over 500-long for an eBook and more than 800-long for an audiobook.
- Verdict on Head Start: A randomized controlled trial found it had little to no impact on the parenting practices of parents, or the cognitive, social-emotional, and health outcomes of participants.
Report: Without Subsidies, Obamacare Crumbling Under Its Own Weight
The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that the average person will pay 75% more for Obamacare plans next year. The ACA was already a bad deal, but it got worse for millions of Americans who will have to pay a greater share of their health plan premiums.
Tuesday Links
- EPA’ decision to stop regulating greenhouse gasses: $801.4 billion in total cost savings for the economy as a whole and a reduction of 87,007 paperwork burden hours.
- What’s going wrong at the BLS.
- A sober analysis of high-fructose corn syrup and cane sugar.
- New results: 7,000 is the healthiest number of steps to take each day. (NYT)