- Charles Murray on the case for marriage: The unvarying finding, whether measured by arrest records, substance abuse, educational attainment, employment, income, or emotional well-being, is that, on average, children growing up with married birth parents fare better than children growing up in any alternative arrangement.
- How did we go from believing that alcohol has no health benefits to the view that it explains why the French are healthier to the view that the safest level of drinking is not a single drop?
- Study: poverty increases the odds of mortality. But couldn’t there be a third factor(s) that causes people to be non-poor and healthier?
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- Humans living in the Bronze Age used hallucinogens.
- AEI: work requirements for welfare benefits actually work.
- AI is assisting doctors, not replacing them. It produces better diagnoses and helps avoid prescription errors. (WSJ)
- Anti-Covid measures didn’t keep people from getting Covid; but they did almost wipe out the flu. (WSJ)
- Health Affairs study: From 21–61 percent of enrollees in ACA plans paid for preventive services that are supposed to be free.
Monday Links
- Trustees: Social Security to run out in 2033; Medicare runs out in 2031.
- The earth’s population just passed 8 billion. Why some scholars think that’s good.
- Awards for dysfunction in health care.
- Judge: Obamacare preventive medicine freebies are out: Five things to know. Why the mandates were a waste of money anyway.
- What preventive procedures would patients pay for with their own money?
Monday Links
- Why diet when you can take a pill?
- AEI study: In Utah, nearly 100% of children leave foster care within three years, while in Illinois, less than half do.
- Sex life of turtles.
- Health Affairs study: HHS reduction in Medicare Advantage payments will cause $60 per year premium increase per beneficiary, small copay increases, and increases of about $27 in annual deductibles.
- Can robots replace caregivers for the elderly? (NYT)