- White House: productivity growth over the next 10 years will be 2.9 percent. CBO: it will be 1.4 percent.
- Trump’s most important health reform.
- Cato: Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration.
- In 2021, CMS processed over 1.1 billion Medicare fee-for-service claims and made payments to 1.5 million institutional providers and clinicians.
- FTC: the hospital marketplace in 99 percent of the nation’s 389 metropolitan statistical areas is “highly concentrated.”
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Center Left Advocacy Discovers Health Savings Accounts
The core idea with HSAs was that high-deductible plans were supposed to be much cheaper than first-dollar health coverage. Consumers could select a high-deductible plan and use the savings to fund an HSA. That way, when patients skipped unnecessary medical services; when they looked for a better deal on a diagnostic test; when they asked about a generic drug rather than fill a brand-name drug, much of the money they saved would be theirs.
When scientists believed Artemis II space travel was impossible
A hundred years ago, the scientific consensus asserted that space travel wasn’t just difficult — it was physically impossible. The successful return of the Artemis II astronauts has proven, once again, that the science was wrong.
Thursday Links – 16 April 2026
- Where are Americans most likely to have babies? Red states.
- Noncitizens received $62 billion in federal housing and rent assistance over the last 30 years.
- States are using TANF as a slush fund. (WSJ)
- Nearly three-quarters of public school students are now eligible for taxpayer-funded meals.
- Cato overview of welfare waste.