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Category: Friday Links

Friday Links

Posted on July 4, 2025July 3, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • John Goodman explains the GOP mega-bill to Bill O’Reilly.
  • Michael Cannon: The GOP schedules most of the deficit increasing items (tax cuts and spending increases) in the early part of the budget window and puts most of the deficit reducing items (revenue increases and spending cuts) at the last part of the budget window.
  • Blood test may indicate how long you will live.
  • Over the past year, heath care has been responsible for over one-third of all employment growth.
  • California leads the nation in housing shortages.
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Friday Links

Posted on June 27, 2025June 25, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • More hospital systems are dropping Medicare Advantage.
  • An estimated 15.5 million U.S. adults now taking weight loss drugs like Wegovy.
  • Derek Thompson: “Face-to-face socializing has plunged more than 20 percent in the last 20 years. Daily time spent at home has increased by 99 minutes in the same period. Coupling rates—that is, the share of folks in long-term relationships—are collapsing in the U.S. and around the world.”
  • RFK, Jr.: Every American should be using a wearable health device within four years:

They can see … what food is doing to their glucose levels, their heart rates and a number of other metrics as they eat it, and they can begin to make good judgments about their diet, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives.

  • Op ed: Put HSAs back in the BBB bill.
  • Last year alone, the GAO identified $31 billion in Medicaid improper payments… In the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program … GAO identified $10.5 billion in improper payments for an error rate of 11.7 percent.
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Friday Links

Posted on June 20, 2025June 19, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • House reconciliation bill creates new subsidies for small business to help employees buy individually owned health insurance.
  • How AEI would reform MA plans.
  • Does exercise really help cancer survival?
  • For diabetes, lifestyle changes are twice as effective as Metformin.
  • Should everyone have a glucose monitor?
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Friday Links

Posted on June 13, 2025June 12, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • “Routine childhood immunizations in the United States from 1994–2023 are estimated to have prevented around 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and more than 1 million deaths.”
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picks to replace the members of the vaccine advisory panel include vaccine skeptics.
  • Estimate: Across all causes of health care spending and disease burden, median spending was $114,339 per disability adjusted life year (DALY) averted between 1996 and 2016.
  • By 2028, the U.S. is projected to face a shortage of more than 73,000 nurse assistants (NAs) and 63,000 registered nurses (RNs) by 2030. Can AI relieve that?
  • America’s hospital system is conspicuously missing from the “waste, fraud, and abuse” targets of DOGE and the  House Republicans.
  • Democrats used to support work requirements for  welfare benefits.
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