Menu
The Goodman Institute Health Blog
  • Home
  • Authors
    • Devon Herrick, Ph.D.
    • John C. Goodman
  • Popular Topics
    • Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
    • Consumer-Driven Health Care
      • Affordable Care Act
      • Cost of Healthcare
      • COVID-19 and Public Health
      • Doctors & Hospitals
      • Public Insurance
      • Policy & Legislation
    • Direct Primary Care
    • Health Economics & Costs
      • Drug Prices & Regulations
      • Health Insurance
      • Health Reform
    • Medical Tourism
    • Telemedicine
    • Medicare
      • Single-Payer/Medicare-for-All
  • Goodman Institute
  • Contact
The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare

Friday Links – 29 August 2025

Posted on August 29, 2025August 28, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Moore v, Krugman
  • Study:  the first vaccine dose reduced the risk of COVID-19 death by 52.6% in those aged 80 years, supporting existing evidence of a strong protective effect in older adults.
  • “The $50 billion rural hospital rescue fund is a fraud.”
  • Is AI politically biased?
  • Katrina recovery spending:

The federal government spent more than was spent (adjusted for inflation) on the post-World War II Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe or for the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks.

  • The results:

Today, New Orleans is smaller, poorer and more unequal than before the storm. It hasn’t rebuilt a durable middle class, and lacks basic services and a major economic engine outside of its storied tourism industry.

+

Wednesday Links

Posted on August 27, 2025August 26, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • “Nearly every part of modern dentistry and orthodontics involves—and is enhanced by— plastics.”
  • AI psychosis is an apparent phenomenon where people go crazy after talking to chatbots too much.
  • Balkir, Saez, Yagan, and Zucman (BSYZ): the total effective tax rate for the top 400 averaged 24% in 2018–2020 compared with 30% for the full population and 45% for top labor income earners.
  • Response to BSYZ: long-run top 400 effective tax-and-giving rates could exceed 75%.
  • Matthew Holt discovers the unpleasantness of bureaucracy.
+

Monday Links

Posted on August 25, 2025August 25, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Why Econ 101 can’t explain the AI market.
  • Giving people monthly cash income doesn’t seem to accomplish much in he US, but cash grants in Kenya not only reduced poverty, they actually saved lives. (Caveats)
  • Even the left now believes that “the people in charge imposed sweeping restrictions that they knew were pointless public health’s response to covid.” 
  • (Obamacare) marketplace plans pay professional fees that are 6.9 percent lower than small group employer plans. Their inpatient prices are 13.3 percent lower, and outpatient prices are 26.3 percent lower.
  • Why men and women differ about politics: There is a 30-point sex gap (men over women) in support for increasing nuclear power generation in the US.
  • Why socialists don’t win many American elections.
+

Tuesday Links

Posted on August 19, 2025August 19, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • AI scores 100% on medical licensing exam. HT: Tyler
  • Study: 

I document that the average parliamentarian is about 1SD more culturally liberal than the national mean voter. This cultural representation gap is systematic in four ways: i) it arises on nearly all cultural issues, ii) in nearly all countries, iii) nearly all established parties are more culturally liberal than the national mean voter, and iv) all major demographic groups tend to be more conservative than their parliamentarians.

  • How Eugene Steuerle would solve the world’s problems.
  • The case against economists that Trump likes.
  • OBBBA took a  year off of Social Security’s financial solvency. (fourth item down)
  • Krugman throws cold water on AI’s future.
+
  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • …
  • 22
  • Next

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,

Visit www.goodmaninstitute.org

Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 40 other subscribers

Popular Topics

©2026 The Goodman Institute Health Blog | Website by Lexicom