Saturday Links

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 Obamacare.

The whole developed world is about to start shrinking. If not for immigration, it already would be.

How much does AARP get for sponsoring UnitedHealth insurance? $9 billion.

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.