- AAF fun fact of the day: Canada has 432 MRI machines, while the United States has roughly 13,000. Adjusting for population, the United States has roughly four times the number of MRI machines per capita.
- Krugman: Why Republicans can’t afford to cut Medicaid benefits.
- The incidence of the flu is approaching recon levels. Vaccination rates are down.
- Argument: one-third of Medicare spending is waste.
- Prices insurers pay for common medical procedures are all over the map.
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- Republicans are having more children than Democrats.
- “More than 370 million people worldwide need oxygen as part of their medical care, but fewer than 1 in 3 receive it.”
- Is Texas making a wrong turn on vaccines?
- The probability of an asteroid wiping out humanity in 2043 is much lower than advertised.
- More than 200,000 public housing units had to be demolished over the past 20 years because they proved to be uninhabitable.
- A solution for Covid-19-related hospital capacity issues: transparency.
Saturday Links
- HSAs for gig workers.
- NYT buries the lead: in an article about DOGE, we learn in the 43rd paragraph that the government identified $236 billion of fraudulent government payments in 2023.
- Falling fertility is becoming a problem the entire world.
- Michael Cannon: the case against RFK Jr.
- People can use food stamps to purchase candy, ice cream, soft drinks, donuts, chips, and even birthday cakes – but not a rotisserie chicken.
Saturday Links
- Health care reform ideas from Joe Lonsdale.
- 73% of college educated women say they would be less likely to date someone if he was a Trump supporter.
- A simple coding change apparently boosted the number of patients judged to have a large hernia by 18% in just one year.
- China graduates more than five times as many iSTEM students as the US does. But we knock their socks off on gender studies and sociology.
- “It’s well-known that when a couple has a child, the average woman experiences a “child penalty” in labor market outcomes, while outcomes for the man are largely unchanged.”