Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health News is once again writing about families who dropped coverage due to Affordable Care Act plans becoming unaffordable. Newsflash: they never were affordable.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Wednesday Links – 17 June 2026
- China may find a cure for cancer before we do.
- Paragon: More than 6 million improper Obamacare enrollees in 2026.
- Does government welfare crowd our social capital? Apparently.
- The Manhattan Institute has an immigration calculator. You plug in various policy options and it tells you what the effects are on federal finances.
- Here is what Yglesias has to say about it.
Put a revolution-era woman on the $250 bill
President Donald Trump wants to release a $250 bill with — no surprise — his own picture on it. Producing money to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary is actually a fine idea. We did it for the 150th anniversary, though it was a commemorative coin, not currency.
But if the country takes that step, the bill should honor a revolutionary hero — or better yet, a revolutionary heroine.
WSJ: Advanced Diagnostics are the Future of Medicine, Just Not Yet…
In the near future, doctors may be able to predict the speed at which your individual organs are aging, and detect cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases long before you develop symptoms. GLP-1 drugs, now used for diabetes and weight loss, might be prescribed to protect your heart or brain or to treat a range of chronic conditions. And instead of a knee or hip replacement, you could get new bone and joint treatments designed to reverse physical decline entirely by regenerating tissue in damaged joints.