Thursday Links

The case against the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Why is the “Lab Leak” hypothesis so controversial?

CBO: restoring solvency to the Social Security and Disability trust funds would require an immediate 31-percent payroll tax increase or a 24-percent across-the-board benefit cut.

Update on Obamacare: “The percentage of individual market consumers enrolled in plans with broad provider networks declined from 36 percent to 11 percent between 2014 and 2023. An increasing share of individual market enrollees are in Medicaid-managed-care-like plans…”

Another update: “ACA plan networks in 2021 included on average only 40% of doctors in a patient’s area and even fewer in such places as Cook County, Ill. (14%), Orange County, Calif. (25%), and Los Angeles (25%). More than a quarter of physicians who participated in traditional Medicare don’t participate in any ACA plan.” (WSJ)