- Medicare Advantage enrollees are more likely to get preventive care. Other comparisons with traditional Medicare were mixed.
- GOP’s approach to drug pricing.
- How reliable are blood tests for detecting cancer? (WSJ)
- The case for fasting.
- Even the Biden administration admits, “No one is serving time in federal prison solely for the crime of marijuana possession.” (WSJ)
Another Hit Job on MA Plans
New York Times reporters Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz have managed to set a high bar (even for the Grey Lady) for those who aspire to mislead readers on health economics. They manage (1) to assert that most major Medicare Advantage insurers have been sued for fraud; (2) to warn how bad that will be in the future as more seniors enroll in these plans; without (3) ever mentioning that there is even more fraud in regular Medicare – the alternative to MA plans.
Why Ukraine is Winning the War and Why You Should Care
Lightweight, highly mobile, incredibly precise weaponry, called Himars, allows Ukrainian soldiers to destroy targets 40 miles away with pinpoint accuracy. All you need to make them functional is a laptop and the coordinates of the targets.
So how do they get the coordinates? I’m afraid they come from US intelligence, just as the weapons come from the US military. And that implies a level of American involvement that most Americans are probably unaware of.
More on Boys and Girls
The effects of free college:
Thanks to a group of anonymous benefactors, students educated in [Kalamazoo’s] K-12 school system receive paid tuition at almost any college in the state…. According to the evaluation team, women in the program “experience very large gains,” including an increase of 45% in college-completion rates, while “men seem to experience zero benefit.”
The cost-benefit analysis showed an overall gain of $69,000 per female participant — a return on investment of at least 12% — compared to an overall loss of $21,000 for each male participant. In short, for men, the program was both costly and ineffective.