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Category: Monday Links

Monday Links

Posted on May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Study results: giving people money doesn’t make them less poor.
  • The real Mark Twain.
  • The official poverty rate doesn’t count IRA and 401(k) withdrawals as “income.”
  • Why Republicans are having a problem cutting Medicaid spending. (NYT)
  • Meta study finds that health insurance improves health. But the most rigorous of the reviewed studies came to the opposite conclusion.
  • Cato reforms Medicaid (But nothing about making the program better for enrollees)
  • David Friedman explains tariffs. (Best explanation I have seen.)
  • Should SNAP (food stamps) regulate what people eat?
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Monday Links – 28 April 2025

Posted on April 28, 2025April 27, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • How Obamacare changed the health insurance marketplace.
  • Worker pay and worker productivity are almost perfectly correlated.
  • Florida GOP investigates a $10 million Medicaid contractor settlement payment that went to Casey DeSantis’s foundation.
  • Yale has one administrator for every undergraduate student.
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Monday Links

Posted on April 21, 2025April 20, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • “While life expectancies around the world have generally been rising, Russia’s life expectancies have not risen for about a half-century.”
  • Do higher fertility rates produce higher economic growth?
  • AAF: “We know tariffs on pharmaceuticals are bad.”
  • Trump think tank: tariffs can lower drug prices.
  • Covid study: vaccinated 6x more likely to be hospitalized than unvaxxed.
  • ChatGPT’s o3 scores 136 on the Norway Mensa IQ test.
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Monday Links

Posted on April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • “Real per capita GDP in a nation is negatively associated with government spending.”
  • How the federal government subsidizes health insurance.
  • RFK Jr.: If you eat doughnuts or smoke, should society pay for your health care? (WaPo)
  • What people who work in hospitals get paid.
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