- Lindsay Clancy’s case isn’t as rare as we would like to think.
- 49% of hospitals are now complying with the price transparency requirement.
- “It’s been clear for years now that “AI could kill humanity” is a very common belief among AI researchers.”
- Should parents have to work to qualify for the child tax credit? (WSJ)
Category: John C. Goodman
Saturday Links – 12 September 2026
- Chris Ruffo on Why Medicare Advantage works so much better than Medicaid managed care.
- Trump to Send $500 to ACA enrollees who do not get subsidies.
- Medicare pays hospital-owned clinics up to 670 percent more than independent physician offices for the exact same care.
- Ken Thorpe: insurers are not helping people stay healthy and avoid sickness. Solution: more regulation. [What Thorpe misses is that unwise regulation is why insurer’s try to attract the healthy and avoid the sick.]
- Trump’s $5,000 fantasy.
Friday Links – 11 September 2026
That would cost $387.6 billion over the 10-year period from 2027–2036… That is like starting the Medicare Part D drug program over again.
- Good news: Weight loss drugs won’t make you crazy.
- US manufacturing is back.
- More results on welfare reform:
“In 1994, before welfare reform, about 46 percent of single-parent families received Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)—a welfare program that provided cash benefits with few strings attached. By 2024, however, only 8 percent of single-parent families received benefits from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)—the program that replaced AFDC in 1996.”
Paragon on then Democrat’s IRA bill: “It is clearer than ever that the IRA raised overall costs and resulted in dramatically higher premiums and larger federal deficits.”
Thursday Links – 10 September 2026
- Why 50 million Americans wake up in the night to urinate.
- “The median H-1B worker earns $130,075 per year (the 91st percentile nationally), meaning that the average H-1B household makes a net federal fiscal contribution that’s 2.6 times as much as the typical American household’s.”
- Should stay-at-home moms get a federal child care subsidy?
- Covid school closings are still affecting scores worldwide.