If you have a bachelor’s degree and are over 25 years of age, your chance of being married is 64 percent. If you have only a high school degree, your odds of being married are an even 50 percent.
Source: Tyler Cowen
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Wednesday Links – 9 September 2026
- UHC is pouring money into top ranking democrat’s campaign.
- Real median income under Trump is still up by roughly $2,000.
- Scientists can gene edit to produce a better dog. (NYT)
- Absent unwise regulations, nuclear power would have cost about one-tenth as much by 2015. The additional generation could have avoided as many as 9.5 million premature deaths.
Hospitals Increasingly Want Paid Upfront; Patients Deserve Something in Return
Years ago, I went to see a new doctor and offered to pay at time of service because I had not met my deductible. My doctor told me to wait for him to bill me because he had no idea what I would owe. Nowadays medical providers are taking no chances. The Wall Street Journal reports that doctors and hospitals increasingly ask for payment upfront.
Tuesday Links – 8 September 2026
- Food Stamp spending is on a path to exceed the Biden baseline.
- HHS, Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine”
- Capital punishment for Bruce the dog. A California court ordered euthanization for an Anatolian Shephard accused of biting three people, including a child, and knocking over a man pushing a wheel chair. Supreme Court appeal was too late. (NYT)
- Street medicine: More than 150 programs across the country provide medical care to people sleeping outside — on sidewalks, in encampments, under overpasses. (NYT)
- Four million children in the United States are caring for an adult family member who is sick or disabled or old.