- Biden Medicaid regulations (with no congressional input) will cost federal taxpayer as much as $134.8 billion over five years and state taxpayers as much as $82.6 billion over five years.
- “We estimate that 59.4 percent of illegal immigrant households use one or more welfare programs.”
- Is the FDA killing people?
- Betsy McCaughey: What RFK, Jr. gets right.
- “Inflation did make the median voter poorer during Biden’s term. In no part of the income distribution did wages grow faster while Biden was President than they did 2012-2020.”
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Kevin Corcoran pans The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean’s.
- RFK, Jr.: Trump administration, said there are “entire departments” within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that “have to go.”
- Regulatory burdens: Trump v. Biden.
- Voters reject legal weed.
Friday Links
- “Citi estimates that GLP-1 drugs could boost GDP by 0.5 percent to one percent in rich countries.”
- Why it’s become harder to extend life expectancy: Low hanging fruit is gone, now all we do is find ways to save old people for short periods of time so they just die of something else.
- “In 1940, the average worker retired at age 68 and had a much shorter life expectancy. If people retired today with the same remaining life expectancy as the 1940 retiree, they would retire at about age 77 on average.”
- Quality ratings for Medicare Advantage plans are misleading and unreliable. Ratings for ACOs are even worse.
Friday Links
- Tomas Philipson: Why price controls on Ozempic could make overall health care costs go up.
- No, millionaires and billionaire’s do not pay lower tax rates than school teachers.
- 35% of bachelor’s degrees from liberal arts colleges result in a negative ROI.
- “In dual-income households within the top socioeconomic quintile, only 29 percent of wives earn more than their husbands, whereas in the bottom quintile, an incredible 69 percent of wives out-earn their husbands.” HT: Arnold Kling
- Ways in which FDR was anti-Black workers.