Saturday Links

Behavioral economics explains why you don’t keep your New Year’s  resolutions.  (WSJ)

In 2024, 16,499 Canadians received MAID (medical assistance in dying).

Health care is the benefit employees value the most.

Murder rates would be up to five times higher than they are but for medical developments … saving the lives of thousands of victims of attack who four decades ago would have died and become murder statistics.  HT: David Henderson via Tyler Cowen

40% of organ donations are “paired.” For example, your family member needs a kidney, but yours is incompatible. So you donate your kidney to the pool and gain the right to get a compatible kidney in return. (NYT)

Why Denmark requires fewer vaccines:  cost/benefit analysis.  (NYT)