Saturday Links

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AEI on the House Republican (but mainly bipartisan) health bill: “There is nothing objectionable in it, but neither is there anything that might deliver transformative improvements over the status quo.”
Was this fraud? Sold as a program in which a worker’s payroll taxes would provide for his future retirement benefits, Social Security from day one deposited payroll tax revenues in the Treasury’s bank account and used the funds to pay general government expenses.
Why do the poor commit more crimes than other people? Turns out, it is not because they have less money.
In California, the typical cost of assisted living is $173 a day, compared to $400 a day for nursing homes.
Weight-loss drugs do more than fight obesity; they also reduce heart disease.

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