- Why are so many young men facing a low testosterone crisis?
- Cowen: Why big buyers of life insurance are good risks, not bad ones.
- Health benefits of music.
- Health benefits of bitter foods.
- “In five years, America will have more people over 65 than under 18…. The worker-to-retiree ratio has collapsed from five-to-one in 1960 to about 2.5 today.”
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Wednesday Links – 11 March 2026
- US economic benefit of curing cancer: $180 trillion.
- “98% of the long-term structural deficit can be attributed to spending policy decisions, while just 2% is attributed to tax policy,”
- 90% of claims for Minnesota Medicaid’s $700 million spent on autism services might have been fraudulent.
- CBO:1.3 million marketplace enrollees improperly claimed the tax credit for 2023 and an estimated 2.3 million enrollees did so for 2025.
- Video: Why the war on drugs didn’t work.
Fudging the numbers: Trump’s economy is not what he claims — or wants
In a briefing before his State of the Union address, President Trump claimed that the U.S. has “the greatest economy we’ve ever had.” But most of the economic statistics he cites don’t back up his claim. Indeed, they tell a story he doesn’t want told.
Tuesday Links – 10 March 2026
- “By 2022, the US had one of the highest shares of primary care physicians reporting burnout (44 percent). Switzerland (18 percent) and the Netherlands (12 percent) had the lowest shares reporting.”
- Some people 80 and up have the memory ability of someone 30 years younger.
- Moderna’s combo mRNA is effective against three main flu strains plus covid. Th’s Ok in Europe. But not for the FDA? (WSJ)
- Last year’s job gains were due to heath care.
- Chatbot psychosis is real. (WSJ)
- Five leading AI models gave bad medical advice.