How Twitter suppressed information about Covid. I think I now understand why the mainstream media has been ignoring everything Elon Musk is releasing about Twitter. Everything that happened at Twitter was also happening at the NYT, CNN, WaPo, etc. A meta-analysis of 62 studies finds that narcissism is positively correlated with time spent on social media, frequency of…
Category: John C. Goodman
The Omnibus $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill
Although the legislation allows states to begin eligibility redeterminations for Medicaid to reduce the nearly 20 million ineligible enrollees, it also makes it easier for many enrollees to keep Medicaid, creates a Medicaid slush fund, and unjustifiably funnels more taxpayer money to U.S. territories through Medicaid.
GOP Tax Cut Paid for Itself
The original Ryan/Brady tax reform bill was the brainchild of Larry Kotlikoff and Alan Auerbach and is described in this Goodman Institute report. Critics at the time said that the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 would produce an irresponsible increase in the federal deficit.
Thursday Links
- The Pasteur Act (apparently not in the Omnibus) would essentially pay for the development of new antibiotics in return for “free” use of subsequently invented drugs.
- Does St John’s Wort have any health benefits?
- Not in the omnibus bill: measures to strengthen the generic drug market. (InsideHealthPolicy: gated)
- US life expectancy down more than two years since 2019.