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Category: Cost of Healthcare

Thursday Links

Posted on December 4, 2025December 3, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • In Madagascar, lemurs are a delicacy – to dine on.
  • Ultra processed foods are bad for the stomach and the intestines. (NYT)
  • There are 3.2 million home health aides and personal care aides on the job last year, up from 1.4 million a decade ago – one-third of them are immigrants.
  • What Britain will pay for drugs: about $26,500 to $40,000 for a healthy year of life saved.
  • Why Social Security and Medicare need immigrants:

If all immigration were stopped, America’s working-age population would fall by about 5% through 2035 … while the number of seniors older than 80 — who generate much larger bills per person for Medicare … — will double.

  • Jeff Goldsmith abandons Medicare Advantage.
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Racial Outcomes in Maternal Mortality (Report Sept 2025)

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Merrill Matthews

This report to the Texas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was released in September. Merrill Matthews is the outgoing chair of the committee (after 17 years on the committee) and oversaw the hearings and production of this report. Click here to view the report.

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Tuesday Links – 2 December 2025

Posted on December 2, 2025December 1, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Playing music, dancing, creating art — and even playing some types of video games — may actually slow down brain aging.
  • Just one week off social media can improve young adults’ mental health.
  • Is the collapsing birth rate just supply and demand?  HT: Tyler
  • “We are at the point, or fast approaching it, when those private thoughts of ours are no longer private.”
  • Did the Covid -19 vaccine really kill ten children? (Statnews)
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Internet Medicine is Not Always a Good Thing

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Devon Herrick

…there is a darker side to social media medicine, where social media charlatans convince (mostly young, impressionable women) to start drug therapies for conditions they do not have. Examples of this include antidepressants for normal stress and beta blockers for social anxiety. Then there are the highly exaggerated, sensationalized videos. TikTok, the Chinese owned social media website became the cesspool of user-created, inferior quality content.

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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,

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