- Suicide, anxiety, and depression numbers are rising among teens. Is social media the problem? Observation: “Every child uses social media but not every child has a mental health problem.”
- Are children the victims of Medicaid expansion?
- Several studies have linked Medicaid expansion to longer wait times for appointments, slower ambulance response times, and greater delays in the emergency room.
- The bipartisan tax deal increases both marriage bonuses and marriage penalties.
- CBO: Budget deficits will average $2.0 trillion per year – or 5.7 percent of GDP – over the next decade.
- How can a silk patch replace a hypodermic needle?
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- Steuerle on the marriage tax: marital penalties are marriage vow penalties easily avoided by those who don’t believe in the vows.
- Lookism: how you look may affect your outcome in courts of law. HT: Tyler
- Margaret Mead was an early LSD experimenter with CIA funding.
- A little appreciated fact about federal government finances: for the past 50 years federal revenues have averaged about 18% of GDP and have never reached 20% — despite many many changes in the tax code. Could this represent a “law” of public finance?
Monday Links
- Biden reverses course – reinstates Trump policies he initially cancelled.
- Why can’t you have a televisit with a doctor in another state?
- Cato is having an online forum on telehealth.
- “The program’s stated goal is to “raise the nutrition levels of low-income households,” yet 40 percent of adult SNAP (food stamp) recipients suffer from obesity and almost 45 percent have received a diagnosis of diet-related disease — far higher rates than the general population.”
- AEI against the House-passed tax bill: “A parent of multiple children with $20,000 of annual income would face an effective tax rate of 83 percent if they took a full-time job paying $40,000 per year.” But that’s because of the other means tested welfare benefits.
Monday Links
- More on what happens when the global population starts shrinking.
- Are we eating too much meat?
- By a 2003 act of Congress, the government’s contribution to Medicare from general revenues is never supped to exceed 45% of the program’s cost. So why has this law never been enforced?
- “Research suggests the [weight loss] medications may pay for themselves or even save money in the long run, by preventing heart attacks and strokes that lead to huge hospital bills.” Yet health plans around the country are dropping coverage. (NYT)