Thursday Links

In Madagascar, lemurs are a delicacy – to dine on.

Ultra processed foods are bad for the stomach and the intestines. (NYT)

There are 3.2 million home health aides and personal care aides on the job last year, up from 1.4 million a decade ago – one-third of them are immigrants.

What Britain will pay for drugs: about $26,500 to $40,000 for a healthy year of life saved.

Why Social Security and Medicare need immigrants:

If all immigration were stopped, America’s working-age population would fall by about 5% through 2035 … while the number of seniors older than 80 — who generate much larger bills per person for Medicare … — will double.

Jeff Goldsmith abandons Medicare Advantage.