Thursday Links – August 2026

Paragon: Nearly half of Medicaid expansion enrollees likely do not meet eligibility requirements.

Why matching funds for Medicaid is a bad idea.

Why baseball arbitration is different from doctor-insurer arbitration.

The downside of gain of function research: “A single smallpox virion weighs less than 10⁻¹⁴ grams …  if you were unlucky enough to inhale even a few dozen virions and had not been vaccinated, you would probably be infected; absent treatment, you face a case fatality rate of around 30.”

“Race communism.” It’s the best thing I have read on racial politics.