Category: Public Insurance
Demographics, not the Supreme Court, are killing racial gerrymandering
There’s been no shortage of expressed outrage from the left in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which significantly limits states’ efforts at racial gerrymandering. A Salon headline captures the progressive indignation: “Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act in ‘Jim Crow 2.0 ruling.’” The left can never be accused of understatement. But the change needed to happen because U.S. demographics are making racial gerrymandering increasingly difficult. And that’s a good thing.
Read the full article on TheHill.com
Tuesday Links – 5 May 2026
- Highest paying specialties: orthopedics and orthopedic surgery: $611,000, cardiology: $575,000, and radiology: $571,000.
- Why are 90% of people right-handed? (Forbes)
- Cigna leaves Obamacare. Only 2 of the last 12 years were profitable.
- David Friedman explains adverse selection.
- The ratio of national debt (held by the public) to GDP passed 100% for the first time since World War 2.
Friday Links – 1 May 2026
- Surprise: If you overstated your income to qualify for (Obamacare) subsidies last year (they averaged just over $6,000 per person), you will now be required to pay them back.
- Study: Retirement accelerates cognitive decline. (HT: Tyler)
- Why fruit doesn’t taste like it used to,
- What can we learn about humans from the study of chimpanzee warfare?
- “Skinny labeling” occurs when generic companies seek regulatory approval to market a medicine for a specific use, but not other patented uses for which a brand-name drug is prescribed. (Statnews)
- Medicaid and SNAP lost nearly $50 billion to fraud last year.