- More young people are getting cancer.
- FDA gives up in its battle against ivermectin.
- Adultery is a crime in New York. (And you don’t get a jury trial.)
- US life expectancy is rising again. HT: Tyler.
- Future deficit spending may be worse than what the CBO is projecting.
- For the first time since the Black death, the world’s population is set to decline.
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- Doctors are charging for email exchanges: $39 per consult.
- What Republicans should have shown as a response to the SOTU speech. HT: Tyler
- “Our legal system is really built for married couples.”
- Palm oil is in bread, instant noodles, Girl Scout cookies, lipstick, Nutella and ice cream, and almost everything else. So, what’s wrong with that? (NYT)
Monday Links
- How the Eugenics Movement found its way into American law. (Missing: the word “progressive.”)
- Cato: 8 reforms for Medicaid. Missing: giving money to the beneficiaries and allowing direct primary care.
- “Two years into the pandemic, more than 150,000 US nursing home residents had died of COVID-19 – roughly 10% of the total U.S. nursing home population. Sadly, well-intentioned lockdowns made things worse.”
- Share of GDP spent on long term care varies from under 1% in Spain to over 4% in the Netherlands. Lots of data from a study by Gruber, et. al.