- Dr. Casey Means (the would-be Surgeon General): Doctors make people sicker. (NYT)
- A single submarine can require four tons of rare earths. (NYT)
- A brief history of Obamcare.
- Cato study: Repealing certificate-of-need (CON) laws increased the number of long-term acute care hospitals (LTACs) by 69 percent and added an average of 558 certified beds per million elderly residents. Furthermore, when LTACs entered the nursing home market, they decreased the rate at which patients in skilled nursing facilities were rehospitalized by 5.9 percent, the number of patients who fell while in care by 5.3 percent, and the number of patients who were physically restrained to their beds by 13 percent.
Traffic Fatalities Near Historic Lows, but Public Health Advocates Demand More Laws
Traffic fatalities have been inching up ever since covid. About 43,230 people died in 2021 the year after the Covid Pandemic. Traffic deaths are up 20% from a decade ago. Approximately 39,345 people died in 2024 compared 32,744 in 2014.
Friday Links
- A defense of the 50-yer mortgage.
- Health insurance companies have done well under Obamacare.
- Why it will be difficult for someone to work for the Mamdani administration.
- Mamdani: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.”
- Obamacare: From 2013 to 2026. the premium for a benchmark silver plan has nearly tripled – growing from $232 $625. The average deductible has nearly doubled – growing $2,425 to $5,304.
- US men and women are marrying late and having fewer children.
Obamacare is Obsolete and Incompatible with Personalized Medicine
Under Obamacare patient power has only gotten worse. In 2023 I paid nearly $8,000 for a health plan that required I spend a similar amount on medical care before it paid a nickel of my medical bills. The only health care dollars I controlled were the ones I took from my own pocket. Of course, that is how it is supposed to work in other markets. The difference is that government regulates risk. If I want a method to limit my risk of a costly, catastrophic health condition, I must buy Obamacare.