Category: Saturday Links

• Everything you want to know about the hundreds of studies on whether alcohol is good or bad for you.
• Did GPT-4o help a kid commit suicide? 
• The $42.5 billion BEAD program was designed to deploy high-speed internet to individual locations. Costs run as high as $40,000 to connect a location.
• The way you breathe is unique to you, like a fingerprint.
• How Medicaid pays for health care for illegal immigrants:

Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally funded Medicaid, but hospitals must still provide emergency care to anyone in need. Through Emergency Medicaid, states receive federal reimbursement for services provided to individuals who meet Medicaid’s income and residency requirements but lack an eligible immigration status. Federal reimbursement can be as high as 90%. InsideHealthPolicy (gated)

• Ten health problems that do not need any more studies.
• Should two-fifths of all real per capita income growth go for health care?