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Category: Monday Links

Monday Links

Posted on May 29, 2023May 29, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Roughly half of states are waiving current food stamp work requirements. Of 800 counties nationwide where work is waived, only 20 have unemployment rates above the 10% threshold prescribed by the waiver process.
  • Michael Tanner:  work requirements can be cumbersome and costly to enforce; there is also limited evidence that they increase employment or save much money. 
  • Federal housing subsides are twice as large as cash welfare; and they come with no time limits and no work requirements.
  • Mile long trains can keep EMTs away from patients who need help.
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Monday Links

Posted on May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  •  Are therapists becoming social justice warriors?
  • Some NY lawmakers want to make organ transplants available to illegal immigrants, while citizens stay on waiting lists. (NYT)
  • Illinois offers free health care to some illegal immigrants. Spending already balloons to $1.1 billion – five times the initial projection.
  • Mass bill: prisoners would get reduced sentences for donating their organs or bone marrow to other patients.
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Monday Links

Posted on May 15, 2023May 14, 2023 by John C. Goodman

David Henderson: If you read or watch nothing else about Covid-19 today or this weekend, make sure you watch Margery Smelkinson’s 4-minute testimony. Charlie Hooper on Ivermectin. How student loans are like health insurance: graduate students will account for 48 percent of new federal student loans … graduates of master’s degree programs owe over $55,000 and graduates of professional programs owe…

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Monday Links

Posted on May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Data show that sizable portions of SNAP (food stamp) dollars purchase non-nutritious foods, such as sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, which can lead to poor health. 
  • The solution to anorexia: No one seems to know.
  • Looking at three years’ worth of data, researchers found nurse-led care increases lengths of stay by 11%; raises 30-day preventable hospitalizations by 20%; and increases the cost of emergency department care by about $66 per patient and $74 million annually.
  • Doctors against giving nurses more authority to practice medicine.
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