- AAF: restrictions on private equity investment in housing make no sense.
- “Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath, can drive several ailments such as heart disease, autoimmunity, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer.” (The Atlantic)
- The case for no colonoscopies after age 75.
- Brian Blase on Tax Day: “Federal spending on health care programs consumed roughly 62 percent of all individual federal income taxes, corporate federal income taxes, and Medicare payroll tax revenue in 2025—up from 29 percent in 2000 and 17 percent in 1975?”
- Adam Millsap: “The U.S. government is the largest borrower in the world. It has to offer a competitive interest rate to encourage investors to keep loaning it money”
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
WSJ: Ways to Cut Medical Bills Without Health Insurance
Obamacare is a boondoggle for those who need medical care. As I have stated before, somewhere between 80% to 90% of enrollees do not surpass their health plan deductible in a given year. Nearly three-fourths of ACA plans are Silver or Bronze plans. Health plan deductibles for Silver plans average $3,727, while Bronze plans average $5,304. That means most people are paying the bulk of their day-to-day medical expenses out of pocket regardless of whether they have coverage. Some people are questioning the need to buy coverage and prefer to use their premium dollars directly for medical care.
Friday Links – 17 April 2026
- 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.”
Friday Links – 10 April 2026
- Voting with their feet: the movement of people from Blue states to Red states.
- Blue states and Red states have essentially the same reading and math scores. But the Blue states are spending $7,000 more per student for the same results.
- Herbert Hoover’s food relief program saved as many as 4.4 million lives.
- Poll: 1 in 8 adults is taking GLP-1 drug for weight loss, diabetes, etc.
- Newsom’s request for federal Medicaid funds exceeds the entire budget of the state of Florida.
- How well weight loss drugs work may depend on your genes.