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Category: Policy & Legislation

Monday Links – 25 May 2026

Posted on May 25, 2026 by John C. Goodman
  • Robert Woodson, RIP
  • An argument for seed oils. (Statnews)
  • Five metrics that help predict how long you will live.
  • Arnold Kling on teacher unions: “The more evil they become, the more powerful they become, and the more evil they become.”
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Drugged Driving is Hard to Detect, Hard to Stop and Ensnares Innocent People

Posted on May 24, 2026May 22, 2026 by Devon Herrick

Driving under the influence has not gone away but there is a new problem: drugged driving. Drugged driving has been around for decades, but it is becoming an issue now that many states have approved recreational and medicinal marijuana.

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Friday Links – 22 May 2026

Posted on May 22, 2026May 21, 2026 by John C. Goodman
  • Fracking has saved US consumers $3 to $4 trillion.
  • Trump out-of-pocket limit for bronze plans in 2027: $15,600 for an individual and $27,600 for a family in 2027. (What are they thinking???)
  • Are we underestimating health care productivity gains?
  • Evidence that immigrant labor adds to the workforce and  output and does not substitute for domestic labor or domestic labor output.
  • Using ice may make pain last longer.
  • Even when crime falls in America, it still generally leaves us about 5x as violent as Europe.
  • Unbelievable: California Medicaid coves exorcisms.
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Wednesday Links – 20 May 2026

Posted on May 20, 2026May 19, 2026 by John C. Goodman
  • Trump adds 600 new drugs to TrumpRx.
  • Even as 19 states have enacted total or near-total abortion bans, the number of abortions provided in the U.S. each year has risen.
  • Regardless of a Supreme Court ruling, “Nothing is going to stop people from accessing abortion pills by mail. The genie is out of the bottle.”
  • As college men have become increasingly scarce, college women have maintained stable marriage rates by marrying high-earning non-college men…. [This has] undermined the marriage prospects of non-college women.
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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.

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