- JEC admits there really is a Laffer curve: “a tax rate above 50% to 55% starts to lose revenues.”
- An argument for why the US should not follow Denmark’s policies on vaccines. Hint: the argument has nothing to do with vaccines.
- Is there a crisis of low testosterone among American men?
- Mental health of kids: Could schools be worse than social media?
- Four reasons why was there was a decline in the rate of growth of health care spending between 2009 and 2019.
Category: Health Insurance
Friday Links
- Robots are coming – but not to worry.
- There is a single-dose oral antiviral that, when taken within 24 to 36 hours of symptom onset, is effective for both treatment and prevention of onward transmission of the flu.
- A bad experience with a sharing health plan: looking at the fine print of “pre-existing condition.”
- Medicare Advantage insurers made almost 53 million prior authorization decisions in 2024. Most were not appealed. Of those that were, 80.7% of those were at least partially overturned.
Weird Science: Are A.I. Chatbots Really Causing Delusions?
Are chatbots to blame for people who develop psychosis after talking to a chatbot? Or are some people susceptible to delusions, and should not use chatbots? Chatbots do not derange people; some people are just on the edge of delusional psychosis and susceptible.
Wednesday Links
- More than half of all Americans take vitamin supplements. (Bloomberg)
- 41 percent of Gen Z and 47 percent of millennials who are engaged or have been married said they entered a prenup.
- The “prescribing cascade”: one drug causes side effects that doctors mistake for a new disease, triggering another prescription that creates its own problems, leaving people trapped in a sea of unnecessary and potentially harmful medications.
- A growing body of quantitative research indicates that some school-based mental health interventions actually create mental health problems.
- Why is the government under Trump investing so much money in so many private companies?
- Hospital expenses per adjusted inpatient day vary widely across states and ownership types, with costs ranging from under $700 to more than $6,000.