- How Republicans might reform health care.
- The biggest problem with Obamacare: There is no price competition.
- Should race be a factor in deciding who gets a kidney?
- Chatbots can become accomplished thieves.
- Estimate: up to 17% of gamers meet the clinical criteria for “gaming disorder.” Study: moderate gaming use can be good for your brain.
- Most of the fish we eat are raised in “underwater factory farms.”
Category: Affordable Care Act
A Republican plan for affordable health care
Republicans succeeded in quashing Democrats’ efforts to reauthorize the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsides — at least so far. Now it’s time for Republicans to put forward their own health care reforms that will increase access to a wide variety of affordable health insurance plans. And that appears to be their goal. Read the full article on TheHill.com
Friday Links
- Average wait to see a new doctor is 31 days.
- Poll: 57 percent of voters in 16 GOP-held battleground districts said they were more likely to choose a congressional candidate who voted to preserve the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
- India has become the world’s pharmacy. HIV drugs sell for a dollar a day.
- Roughly 40% of the US population lives in an area where the water is not fluoridated.
- 6% of US students are being homeschooled.
Monday Links
- In 72% of species, females lived longer than males.
- In any given year, 5% of the people spend half the heath care dollars, while half the people spend almost nothing.
- Obamacare premiums have increased nearly twice as fast as employer-based health insurance premiums since 2014.
- Falls cost $80 billion a year in health care costs. Some MA plans invest in preventing them.
- AEI: Let Social Security pay for “earned” benefits, but not “unearned” benefits.