Rural heath care’s greatest need: doctors licensed in other states.
There appears to have been a recent lab leak of pneumonic plague in Russia that killed a lab worker.
Trump finds rampant noncitizen voting in … Ken Paxton’s Texas
Ken Paxton, call your office! President Trump has a report from the U.S. Census Bureau that purports to expose the states with the largest number of noncitizen voters in the 2020 election.
Texas comes in second with 2,500 alleged noncitizen voters — and the bureau says there’s more to come.
If true, state Attorney General Paxton needs to explain why more alleged noncitizen voters haven’t been charged.
Tuesday Links – 6 October 2026
- Why are so many patients being charged when they go for their annual “free” doctors visit? (Vox)
- How often has Paul Krugman been wrong about new technologies? Often.
- “The average American taxpayer moves from roughly the 20th percentile of the income distribution at ages 18–25 to the 75th percentile at ages 55–64, simply as they move through the normal life cycle.”
- Making the case for genes over environment: “Social status is inherited as strongly as height. Even relatives as distant as nine generations apart, 270 years, still show significant correlation in social status.”
Blue States Revisit Single-Payer Health Care, Again…
All told, nearly half of states have explored the topic in one way or another with about 66 different proposals across the country. The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health News reports Oregon is the latest blue state to actively study a single payer health care proposal.