Saturday Links – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Saturday Links

Posted on January 17, 2026January 16, 2026 by John C. Goodman

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Saturday Links – 10 January 2026

Posted on January 10, 2026January 9, 2026 by John C. Goodman

Venezuelan oil: “There are a number of conclusions, but one stands out: Nothing happens fast.”
Reason for Federal debt: Republicans cut taxes; Democrats increase social welfare spending.
DOE Office for Civil Rights: a single individual often accounts for 10-30% of all complaints!
Roughly half the people who start on the weight loss drugs stop taking them within a year. The quit rate hits 60% among people over 65 who have diabetes. (Statnews)
What crimes Trump is trying to prevent: 97% of DC homicide victims in Washington DC were Black.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health.

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Saturday Links

Posted on January 3, 2026January 2, 2026 by John C. Goodman

Behavioral economics explains why you don’t keep your New Year’s resolutions. (WSJ)
In 2024, 16,499 Canadians received MAID (medical assistance in dying).
Health care is the benefit employees value the most.
Murder rates would be up to five times higher than they are but for medical developments … saving the lives of thousands of victims of attack who four decades ago would have died and become murder statistics. HT: David Henderson via Tyler Cowen
40% of organ donations are “paired.” For example, your family member needs a kidney, but yours is incompatible. So you donate your kidney to the pool and gain the right to get a compatible kidney in return. (NYT)
Why Denmark requires fewer vaccines: cost/benefit analysis. (NYT)

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Saturday Links

Posted on December 27, 2025December 26, 2025 by John C. Goodman

Obamacare light: “this cautious approach will make it difficult to argue Republicans have a plan to lower costs for the majority of American consumers.”
Against Republican Food Stamp restrictions. (I don’t agree. In most states you usually must certify your status weekly or bi-weekly to keep receiving Unemployment Compensation.)
Senate Republican health plan: Eligible individuals age 18 to 49 with incomes below 700 percent of the federal poverty line would get $1,000 annually in 2026 and 2027, while those age 60 to 64 would get $1,500. Those amounts are far less than the $7,500 average deductible for bronze coverage in 2026 or the $10,600 required by the ACA’s catastrophic insurance plans.
Unique study of the benefits of college admission: cost-benefit calculations show internal rates of return of 26 percent for the students, 16 percent for society (which must pay for the additional education), and 7 percent for the government budget.

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