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Category: Saturday Links

Saturday Links

Posted on November 29, 2025November 29, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Theories about why people are down on the economy.
  • Should you feed a cold and starve a fever?  No. (NYT)
  • How many Americans are really poor?
  • 100 years of mortgage crises.
  • Playing outside is good for kids.
  • Mississippi’s economically disadvantaged fourth graders now post the highest reading scores in the nation.
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Saturday Links

Posted on November 22, 2025November 21, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Among 184 cancer drugs analyzed, 41.8 percent had at least one follow-on approval, with 59.7 percent of those targeting earlier disease stages than the original approval. This type of innovation is threatened by the IRA, which shortened the period of patent protection.
  • Nearly 70,000 federal employees make more than $200,000, or two and a half times the median household income.
  • Less than 60% of males between the ages of 16-24 are working. 
  • Capretta’s ACA reform: let low-wage workers have a partial subsidy to buy into their employer’s plan.
  • Mark Cuban wants to F___ Up health care. (Statnews)
  • Study: healthy lifestyle habits improve engagement at work.
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Saturday Links

Posted on November 15, 2025November 15, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Dr. Casey Means (the would-be Surgeon General): Doctors make people sicker. (NYT)
  • A single submarine can require four tons of rare earths. (NYT)
  • A brief history of Obamcare.
  • Cato study: Repealing certificate-of-need (CON) laws increased the number of long-term acute care hospitals (LTACs) by 69 percent and added an average of 558 certified beds per million elderly residents. Furthermore, when LTACs entered the nursing home market, they decreased the rate at which patients in skilled nursing facilities were rehospitalized by 5.9 percent, the number of patients who fell while in care by 5.3 percent, and the number of patients who were physically restrained to their beds by 13 percent.
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Saturday Links

Posted on November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Dr. Casey Means (the would-be Surgeon General): Doctors make people sicker. (NYT)
  • A single submarine can require four tons of rare earths. (NYT)
  • A brief history of Obamacare.
  • The whole developed world is about to start shrinking. If not for immigration, it already would be.
  • How much does AARP get for sponsoring UnitedHealth insurance? $9 billion.
  • Cato study: Repealing certificate-of-need (CON) laws increased the number of long-term acute care hospitals (LTACs) by 69 percent and added an average of 558 certified beds per million elderly residents. Furthermore, when LTACs entered the nursing home market, they decreased the rate at which patients in skilled nursing facilities were rehospitalized by 5.9 percent, the number of patients who fell while in care by 5.3 percent, and the number of patients who were physically restrained to their beds by 13 percent.
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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