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Thursday Links

Posted on January 19, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Half of all Medicare beneficiaries are now in Medicare Advantage plans.
  • Gallup: 38% say they or a family member put off medical care because of costs – the highest number in 22 years.
  • Cato: Black civil servants earned approximately 3.4 – 6.9 percentage points less because of the segregationist policies of  Woodrow Wilson – the 20th century’s most prominent “progressive.”
  • Mark Cuban’s online Cost Plus Drug Co. as 2 million customers. Cuban says the pharmacy could have saved his Dallas Mavericks basketball team $146,000. So why didn’t they?
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Thursday Links

Posted on January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Are family leave policies keeping women’s wages down?
  • Study: Medicare Advantage is substantially better than traditional Medicare for diabetes.
  • GOP House to investigate federal funding of gain-of-function research.
  • Asian-Americans have a life expectancy of 85.7, compared to the US average of 79.1. (“I suspect that highly educated Asian Americans have a life expectancy that is absolutely off the charts.”)
  • Why was there a surge of traffic deaths in the first year of the pandemic?
  • Why is the FDA hostile to personalized tests?
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Tuesday Links

Posted on January 10, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • How the Romans chose new leaders: Of the 69 rulers of the unified Roman Empire, from Augustus (d. 14 CE) to Theodosius (d. 395 CE), 62% suffered violent death.
  • Scott Sumner: Nationalism is hazardous to your health.
  • Paul Ehrlich promoted more fake predictions on “60 Minutes.”
  • WaPo: Social Security’s is using of archaic job-availability lists to deny benefits to obviously disabled people.
  • WaPo: Social Security is imposing of astronomical penalties on people, many poor and disables, for spending checks mistakenly sent them by Social Security.
  • The far more egregious financial malfeasance that WaPo missed:  the huge fraud Social Security has committed against 13,000 plus widow(er)s who collectively have been swindled out of $130 million.
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Wednesday Links

Posted on January 4, 2023January 3, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Tyler Cowen explains why he is skeptical of the lead-causes-violence theory.
  • Are 15 million Americans about to lose their health insurance?
  • Report: there have been at least 275,000 claims submitted for dispute resolution with respect to payments to out of network providers during the first three quarters of 2022. Federal agencies were expecting 17,333 a year.
  • In defense of Canadian Euthanasia.
  • “Growing evidence suggests that repeated vaccinations may make people more susceptible” to a new covid variant. (WSJ)
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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