- The US has the most progressive tax system in the world.
- Kennedy turns the food Pyramid upside down.
- Best study so far on the gains and losses from the Covid-19 vaccine.
- Sen. Schumer’s health reform bill.
- Median family income has steadily increased over the last 50 years.
- Utah residents can now use an artificial intelligence chatbot to renew some commonly used prescription drugs. (WaPo)
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Uncle Sam Wants to Change Your Diet (for the better)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture under Trump plans to upend the food pyramid of recommended dietary guidelines. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has definite ideas about what constitutes healthy food. It seems like every few years public health officials decide to change dietary recommendations. Usually, it’s about eating more salad, but Kennedy has other ideas.
Thursday Links
- Why is Biden’s pension twice the size of Obama’s?
- Poland is an economic recovery model for Venezuela.
- Venezuela’s stock market is now up +73% since President Maduro was captured.
- Why we can’t grow our way out of the Medicare-driven debt crisis.
- The only people who should take an aspirin a day are people with a history of cardiovascular disease. (NYT)
President Trump: Globalist, interventionist, nation-builder
Many of President Trump’s MAGA and America First base — especially some of his most public supporters — hoped he would be pulling back on American interventionism in other countries. But as president, Trump has become a globalist, an interventionist — some might say a war monger.
And now he plans to become a nation-builder as well.