The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly four million Obamacare enrollees dropped coverage once the generous subsidies ended. In 2014 enrollment was just under 13 million. Between 2020 and 2025 enrollment about doubled to 24 million. Part of that could have been worry about the lingering risk of Covid, but generous enhanced subsidies undoubtedly boosted people’s willingness to enroll. Now people are dropping coverage.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Monday Links – 29 June 2026
- JAMA studies: COVID-19 booster vaccines offer significant protection against severe outcomes, including hospitalizations and cardiovascular complications.
- The International Space Station will be replaced by privatized space stations. (A negative view I do not agree with.)
- Everything you ever want to know about tests on the effects of vitamin D.
- If we confiscated all of Elon Musk’s wealth and divided it equally among 350 million Americans, how much extra consumption could each American enjoy? 28 cents.
- One test on one vial of blood can screen for up to fifty different cancers at once. (Not yet approved by the FDA.)
- Cancer deaths in the US have fallen 35% over the past 35 years, resulting in 5 million fewer deaths.
Monday Links – 1 June 2026
- Health effects of double dipping.
- “The chance that there will be a pandemic that kills over 100 million people during the next century seems high, plausibly similar or greater than the risk of large-scale nuclear war or climate change above six degrees.”
- Trump’s attacks on small boats in the waters off South America have had no effect on the amount of cocaine in the US.
- What to know about the fight over raw milk.
- “The practice of “crating” pigs is torture, plain and simple.”