When transistor radios became small enough to keep in a kid’s bedroom parents probably worried about lost sleep. When I was a teen, I recall watching my 12” black & white TV with the brightness turned down, an earpiece to conceal sound and a remote power off switch so I could quickly shut it off should my mother check on me. Yes, I often lost sleep. A family member relocated their router to the master bedroom so they could shut it off at night. They didn’t want their teen awake gaming at all hours. All the angst over social media just sounds like yet another form of entertainment for parents to blame for teen behavior.
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
Weight-Loss Drugs Also Reduce Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Early research to assess whether weight loss for its own sake is beneficial enough to require coverage has shown some health benefits. A new finding is that GLP-1 drugs reduce the cravings for drugs and alcohol as well.
Monday Links
- Doctor fees explained.
- The many ways Obamacare has failed.
- From the first launch globally, the median time a new drug became available was 2.7 years for high-income countries, 4.5 years for upper-middle-income countries, 6.9 years for lower-middle-income countries, and 8.0 years for low-income countries.
- Harris’s home health care plan could cost $400 billion a year.
- AI’s bedside manner is better than a doctor’s.
Monday Links
- CBO: Medicaid spending on illegal aliens has cost Taxpayers over $16.2 Billion in the last three years.
- o1 is the first AI to outperform PhD-level scholars on the toughest Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark and to excel in solving International Mathematics Olympiad problems.
- AEI: When the social Security Trust Fund becomes exhausted in 2033, most people assume the Treasury will reduce everyone’s monthly benefit check by 21%. In fact, the administration can means test the reduction – protecting the lowest income recipients at the expense of the highest – without any act of Congress.
- In OMB’s new cost benefit analysis, higher income people get lower weights than lower income people. Viscusi on why that matters and what can go wrong.