- Arnold Kling: My model of nonprofits says that they please donors without necessarily accomplishing anything.
- The increase in pedestrian deaths is not caused by larger vehicles.
- Making medical school tuition free won’t solve the shortage of primary care physicians.
- Why a full body MRI is not a good idea even if it’s free.
- Newer antibiotics are safer and more effective. So why aren’t doctors prescribing them?
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- Penn Wharton on Biden’s latest student loan plan: it will cost taxpayers $84 billion and roughly “750,000 households making over $312,000 in average household income” will benefit.
- 400,000 to 480,000 children were born each year prenatally exposed to drugs or alcohol, based on an estimate for 2009–14, before the current drug epidemic began.
- The average resident of New Jersey will pay almost $1 million in lifetime taxes. No wonder the Garden State has lost more residents to out migration than any other state.
- CDC on why women avoid mammograms: feeling socially isolated, loss of work or reduced hours, dissatisfaction with life, the cost to access health care, a lack of transportation, and receiving food stamps.
Monday Links
- The politics of school closings during Covid: At the pandemic record high in December 2020—when vaccines were still not available—fewer than one-fifth of districts Trump won took the precaution of temporary closures; and until mid-March 2021, less than one-fifth of Biden districts were fully open.
- Against DEI in medical school.
- Fertility is falling below the replacement rate all over the world. But cross-sectioned by income, fertility is U-shaped. When I can find the time, I will give my own explanation for this.
- Ross Douthat: the left is unhappy. (NYT)
- My own thoughts: 20th century liberalism explained.
Monday Links
- “We find that one-quarter of food-insecure households fall within the top three quintiles of the income distribution and that food-insecure households spend about as much as food-secure households do on food per week.”
- Biden lowers the hammer on short-term insurance: plans can only last 3 months with a 1 month renewal.
- This year alone, the federal government will spend more than $1.1 trillion to fund more than 130 anti-poverty programs. State and local governments will kick in an additional $700 billion, pushing total anti-poverty spending to more than $1.8 trillion. If all that money were given to the poor it would equal $47,493 per person.
- Bob Moffett authors another review of Modernizing Medicare.
- There have been 70 legal changes to Obamacare so far.