- “The stand-alone Part D market is now in active collapse. Plan participation is plummeting. Options are shrinking. And costs are soaring despite skyrocketing subsidies from taxpayers.”
- “According to the CDC, nearly 8.6 million Americans 12 years and older misused prescription opioids in 2023.”
- The Department of Agriculture estimates that the country loses or throws away 30 to 40 percent of its food supply.
- Mass killings with guns drop to a 20-year low.
- Finnish guaranteed income experiment: recipients were no more likely to work and no less likely to commit crimes than the control group.
- “Studies show that delaying the Hep B birth dose by two months may lead to over 1,400 excess Hep B childhood infections.”
Category: Experts
Monday Links
- Is Trump’s FDA worse than Biden’s?
- Jon Gruber’s latest ideas on health policy.
- The disability scam: At Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Amherst, that figure is 34 percent.
- To promote population growth, China is taxing condoms.
- 43 percent of Utah adults on safety-net programs admitted to having deliberately limited their household income to avoid losing government benefits, including by turning down a raise or promotion.
- GAO on Obamacare subsidies: $94 million paid to insurers for deceased people.
Racial Outcomes in Maternal Mortality (Report Sept 2025)
This report to the Texas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was released in September. Merrill Matthews is the outgoing chair of the committee (after 17 years on the committee) and oversaw the hearings and production of this report. Click here to view the report.
Monday Links
- Immigrant geniuses: Between 1990 and 2019, migrants from China, India, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines accounted for nearly 40 percent of the growth in America’s software-developer ranks, a quarter of new scientists and engineers, and a fifth of additional physicians.
- Effect of students’ failure to learn: the lifetime earnings of today’s average student will be an estimated 8 percent lower than that of students in 2013.
- Why aren’t there more HSAs in exchange plans?
- Based on data from almost 2 million species, researchers found that in the last 200 years, there was no evidence for increasing extinction from climate change.