- Highest paying specialties: orthopedics and orthopedic surgery: $611,000, cardiology: $575,000, and radiology: $571,000.
- Why are 90% of people right-handed? (Forbes)
- Cigna leaves Obamacare. Only 2 of the last 12 years were profitable.
- David Friedman explains adverse selection.
- The ratio of national debt (held by the public) to GDP passed 100% for the first time since World War 2.
More Baby Boomers are Distancing Themselves from Adult Offspring
Parents often have different definitions of respect and loyalty. The biggest reason for parental (and child) estrangement is probably that quiet estrangement is no longer stigmatized like it once was. It is difficult to gauge whether estrangement is more common than decades past or if people are more willing to talk about it. Or perhaps words and definitions have changed.
Don’t Close the Door on Immigrant Doctors Willing to Work in Underserved Areas
Even the most die-hard immigration opponents should not complain about doctors, who invested vast amounts of their own time, effort, and money into medical training, hoping to practice their skills here. This is especially true if they are willing to work in underserved areas.
Friday Links – 1 May 2026
- Surprise: If you overstated your income to qualify for (Obamacare) subsidies last year (they averaged just over $6,000 per person), you will now be required to pay them back.
- Study: Retirement accelerates cognitive decline. (HT: Tyler)
- Why fruit doesn’t taste like it used to,
- What can we learn about humans from the study of chimpanzee warfare?
- “Skinny labeling” occurs when generic companies seek regulatory approval to market a medicine for a specific use, but not other patented uses for which a brand-name drug is prescribed. (Statnews)
- Medicaid and SNAP lost nearly $50 billion to fraud last year.