- Grade inflation reduces a student’s future test scores, the likelihood of graduating from high school, college enrollment, and ultimately the present discounted value of lifetime earnings of students by $213,872 per year.
- Is Japan freeloading on American drug innovation?
- “Modern LLMs are built in a way that is antagonistic to great writing.”
- “We’re more likely to die from choking on food than from an airplane crash.”
- Chris Jacobs on the JEC report on Medicare Advantage plans.
Category: Medicare
The Demise of Primary Care is Due to Third Party Payment
Primary Care is in trouble, or so says the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). It is not easy to find a primary care physician if you do not already have one. A lot of primary care practices are closed to new patients. Others are closed to some new patients depending on their health plan. This is especially true for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
Monday Links – 9 March 2026
- CDC: 1,136 confirmed measles cases in 2026 to date and 2,281 confirmed cases in 2025. (Most years since 2000 have had fewer than 200 cases nationwide.)
- CBO: ACOs are not saving Medicare any money.
- Murray Rothbard, 100 years on.
- Best summary I have seen on what we know about the health effects of alcohol.
- Stem cell therapies come of age in Japan.
- Why don’t human beings have a mating season? (Forbes)
Friday Links – 6 March 2026
- Medicare Advantage enrollees have fewer inpatient hospital stays and are less likely to be discharged to any postacute care setting.
- Capretta on surprise medical bills. He seems to endorse the Goodman solution.
- Is ivermectin effective against covid? What ChatGPT gets wrong.
- What to know about Trump accounts.
- What a “hospital death spiral” looks like.