- Study: Climbing at least six flights a day reduces the likelihood of a major cardiovascular issue, like stroke or heart attack.
- Should Robert E. Lee’s portrait hang at West Point?
- 12 OECD countries had individual net wealth taxes in 1990. By 2017, only four OECD countries still had them.
- The new pancreatic cancer drug will cost $480,000 a year. (NYT)
- Electronic medical records: The industry became exceptionally good at documenting encounters…. What it never became particularly good at was helping individuals assemble those encounters into a coherent picture of their health over time.
Category: News and Events
The age of big-spending Republicans is here
It may be hard for the Gen Z crowd to accept, but there was a time when Republicans in Congress believed in fiscal responsibility — restraining government spending and working to limit federal debt. Sadly, all most Gen Zers have ever known is big-spending Republicans.
Tuesday Links – 1 September 2026
Across five cancers, Medicaid beneficiaries were between 11% and 42% more likely than privately insured patients to wait more than a month for treatment. Medicare patients fared somewhat better but were still between 4% and 12% more likely to wait a month or more than individuals with private coverage.
Medicaid and Medicare patients are more likely than patients with private coverage to face extended emergency-room waits before being admitted to a hospital.
- The low down on Roy Cohn. (The Atlantic)
- No more GLP-1?
A handful of major corporations have recently said they are ending coverage of GLP-1s specifically for obesity, including PepsiCo, Starbucks, PwC, and HCA Healthcare. Large health insurers, state Medicaid plans, and public-sector employers have been cutting GLP-1 coverage for weight loss since 2024. (Statnews)
Monday Links – 31 August 2026
- Benefits Cliffs: In Illinois, a family earning an additional $1,000, at a certain threshold, loses more than $25,000 in net resources…. [A] hypothetical single parent in the District of Columbia gains nothing financially as earnings rise from $11,000 to $65,000.
- 250 California state employees were paid more than $600,000 last year.
- Where you can see puffins.
- “Black Americans continue to experience higher colorectal cancer mortality rates, and rural and medically underserved communities face persistent barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment.”