Thursday Links – 25 June 2026

You are having a nightmare. Why do you wake up before the monster kills you?

The controversy over whole body scans. (It’s $108,000 per QALY – but four times that if you count the patient’s time and value it at $50 an hour.)

Polling: Social Security’s finances are worse than most people think.

“[Economists] found that because nonprofit hospitals cannot distribute profits to shareholders, they accumulate excess tax-free cash — and spend it on themselves. Their facility-wide general and administrative wage expenses run 26 percent higher than comparable for-profit hospitals.”

Seniors keep getting richer (less likely to be poor) than non-seniors.