- If Medicaid’s current 5 percent annual growth rate were restrained to 3 percent, a 10 year savings of over $900 billion would result.
- Have scientists discovered life on another planet?
- Why poverty is not the cause of child abuse.
- Last year, the state [CA] chancellor’s office estimated 25 percent of community college applicants were bots.
- Of the ten most-visited graves in the USA, just one is the resting place of a president. The rest are all the graves of entertainers.
- Why do middle aged men have so few friends?
Category: Cost of Healthcare
WSJ: Suicide a Significant Problem Among Young Doctors
Suicide is also a problem even among those who are thought to be enjoying the good life, including young physicians, reports the Wall Street Journal:
“The fact that the medical profession has one of the highest rates of burnout and suicide, compared to other professions, speaks to the urgent need for change,” Mortimer told The City, a local news site, in November 2022.
Monday Links – 28 April 2025
- How Obamacare changed the health insurance marketplace.
- Worker pay and worker productivity are almost perfectly correlated.
- Florida GOP investigates a $10 million Medicaid contractor settlement payment that went to Casey DeSantis’s foundation.
- Yale has one administrator for every undergraduate student.
Vox: Life is Fraught with Risk, but You Should Not Worry
Historically, risks were often from natural causes. Fires, extreme weather, infectious disease, food poisoning, etc. As Vox Media points out, risks have proliferated in the past century.