- Energy costs are 40% higher under Biden.
- The down side of the job market: 52% of college grads are working in jobs that don’t require the degrees they earned, a year after graduation.
- Scott Alexander responds to Robin Hanson on: Does health care matter?
- Robin responds to the response.
- Why is Walmart shutting down all of its Texas health clinics?
- More reasons to support the Wuhan lab theory.
Category: John C. Goodman
Can the President Order a Murder?
Supposedly this issue is right now before the Supreme Court. But, this is not a hypothetical. It has already happened. Barack Obama ordered the assassination of Osama bin Laden. It was carried out by US special forces.
Tuesday Links
- A Medicare reform that is long overdue: when Medicare Advantage enrollees return to traditional Medicare, they shouldn’t be penalized in the medigap market.
- Robin Hanson responds to Scott Alexander: core medicine is effective but it appears that extra medicine (delivered in high spending areas) is not.
- San Francisco opens a $1.7 million public toilet. (NYT)
- Why it is so hard to know if there is a relationship between red meat and mortality.
- States with freer economies attract more immigrants from other states and have higher growth rates.
Four Key Health Reforms
- Stop overpaying hospitals by pursuing site-neutral payments in Medicare;
- increase efficiencies in Medicare Advantage payments as laid out in Paragon’s proposal;
- let the enhanced ACA subsidies to health insurers expire after 2025; and
- Stop discriminating against traditional Medicaid enrollees (low-income kids, pregnant women, and people with disabilities) by lowering the federal subsidy rate for ACA able-bodied, working-age expansion enrollees to the rate paid for traditional enrollees.