- The physician shortage in our future.
- About one in five enrollees were disenrolled from Medicaid coverage at some point in 2023, but about 3/4ths of those either re-enrolled or found other insurance. Bottom line: the pandemic was an excuse to waste a lot of taxpayer money.
- Biden finally ends Covid mask mandate (imposed for federal facilities whenever a meaningless CDC metric is exceeded in a county).
- Why we don’t walk as much as we used to and why it matters.
- Against the idea that over-prescribing caused the opioid crisis.
Category: John C. Goodman
Tuesday Links
- Tax Day remembrance: The top rate was once 91%. The corporate rate was 52%. The capital gains rate was 25%. The tax on top estates was 77%. But the tax take was only 16% of national income.
- Why is there a shortage of Adderall?
- How the DEA is creating drug shortages.
- Missile defense: Beginning in the Reagan administration and right up through the GW Bush administration, many experts and many more nonexperts claimed it couldn’t work. “You can’t hit a bullet with a bullet,” was a popular catchphrase. But on Sunday, that is exactly what US/Israeli defense forces did – with incredibly accurate precision.
Cochrane on Inflation
For all of the excess stimulus under Trump, the fact is that inflation broke out precisely in February 2021, and not a minute beforehand. If you want an event, the Feb 2021 “American Rescue” act, with a few trillions more stimulus though the pandemic was clearly over, made clear that this administration was not going back to standard fiscal policy. More
Monday Links
- Penn Wharton on Biden’s latest student loan plan: it will cost taxpayers $84 billion and roughly “750,000 households making over $312,000 in average household income” will benefit.
- 400,000 to 480,000 children were born each year prenatally exposed to drugs or alcohol, based on an estimate for 2009–14, before the current drug epidemic began.
- The average resident of New Jersey will pay almost $1 million in lifetime taxes. No wonder the Garden State has lost more residents to out migration than any other state.
- CDC on why women avoid mammograms: feeling socially isolated, loss of work or reduced hours, dissatisfaction with life, the cost to access health care, a lack of transportation, and receiving food stamps.