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Thursday Links – 27 August 2026

Posted on August 27, 2026August 26, 2026 by John C. Goodman
  • “In 2026 alone the federal government will borrow about $15,000 per household to cover the share of spending not covered by taxes.”
  • BMJ study: One in four NFL players suffers from brain disease.
  • Did Republicans cut Medicaid?

Even after taking into consideration the policy changes in last year’s budget reconciliation bill, CBO’s projections for Medicaid spending in the coming decade … are over $250 billion higher than in June 2024, the final year of the Biden presidency.

  • Clinton/Gingrich welfare reform worked wonders. But Medicaid and Food Stamps were not included.
  • Doctors are licensed. Should AI programs that give medical advice also be licensed?
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Wednesday Links – 26 August 2026

Posted on August 26, 2026August 25, 2026 by John C. Goodman
  • Parente on Medicare for All.
  • Mark Cuban encourages companies and government agencies to use AI chatbots to comb through their healthcare benefit contracts, identifying hidden fees that could be cut to reduce costs.
  • SNAP rolls have fallen by 5 million. That’s good news.
  • How much economic freedom matter for individual wellbeing.
  • “Prevention does not fail because it does not work. It fails because, under current financing rules, the entity paying for it is rarely the entity that gets to keep the savings.”
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Tuesday Links – 25 August 2026

Posted on August 25, 2026August 24, 2026 by John C. Goodman
  • Explanation for the placebo effect.
  • Can stress cause grey hair?
  • Gravity reduces our height  by 1 centimeter after we get out of bed.
  • Why are there so many lawsuits over Medicare advantage quality ratings?
  • Gain of function research update: “Between 2000 and 3021 there were some 300 cases of lab workers becoming infected by the pathogens they were studying.”
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Monday Links – 24 August 2026

Posted on August 24, 2026 by John C. Goodman
  • There was a 34% drop in bariatric surgeries from 2022 to 2024, while GLP-1 use increased by 140%.
  • Why the Medicare Advantage plan launched by Cosco and SCAN may make sense.
  • Capretta on nonnetwork health insurance.
  • States that banned the use of Food Stamps to purchase sodas saw a 13 percent drop in soda purchases among SNAP users. (A drop of two standard soda cans perp month.) 
  • The first year of the ACA marketplace exchanges, premiums increased by 49%. Since then, they have doubled.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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