- As enrollment declines (because of unwinding form Covid levels) the fall in prescriptions paid for by Medicaid or CHIP were mostly offset by an increase in commercial-paid prescriptions.
- Welfare spending has no effect on the poverty rate.
- Essay: bad government policies are the reason for almost all of our health care system failures. (Statnews)
- Social Security crisis in pictures.
- Krugman doubles down on an old and controversial claim: sweatshops in less developed countries are better than the alternative.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Monday Links
- “While life expectancies around the world have generally been rising, Russia’s life expectancies have not risen for about a half-century.”
- Do higher fertility rates produce higher economic growth?
- AAF: “We know tariffs on pharmaceuticals are bad.”
- Trump think tank: tariffs can lower drug prices.
- Covid study: vaccinated 6x more likely to be hospitalized than unvaxxed.
- ChatGPT’s o3 scores 136 on the Norway Mensa IQ test.
NYT: Families Increasingly Want Cameras to Monitor Nursing Home Residents
Many of my neighbors have Ring doorbell cameras to monitor the comings and goings of people around their property. Increasingly people with loved ones in nursing homes are installing cameras to monitor the care of their family members.