- AARP study: Americans are 20 times more likely to save for retirement if do so if contributions are taken from a paycheck automatic. Auto enrollment in 401(k) plans was a key accomplishment of John Goodman, Pete DuPont and Peter Orszag.
- Congress has designated $12 trillion in spending for emergencies over the past 30 years.
- Roughly half or more of every race or religion believes that society discriminates against their kind and. Democrats and Republicans alike feel like they have been losing out to the other side.
- Fewer opioid prescriptions follow surgery and the doses are smaller.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Tuesday Links
- California state health insurance to cover sex changes for illegal immigrants.
- Good news about the new Covid strain.
- 56% of the economically most impactful technologies come from just two U.S. locations: Silicon Valley and the Northeast Corridor.
- Book: There is a worldwide epidemic of diabetes and it has one cause: carbohydrates.
Monday Links
- FDA approves Florida plan to import drugs from Canada.
- Nearly 53,000 more people died in the UK last year above the normal rate of mortal attrition. These excess deaths coincided with 38 days of strikes by doctors.
- Given low price inflation, why is unemployment so low? Because the Phillips Curve is based on wage inflation, not price inflation.
- What could kill the Schumer/McConnell/Johnson budget deal? A “poison pill” AKA an “abortion pill.”
Hearing Loss (and Poverty) Correlated with Dementia
A cohort study of 573,088 people from Southern Denmark found an increased risk of dementia in those who experience hearing loss.