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Category: Sunday Links

Sunday Links

Posted on April 6, 2025April 6, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Only one-third of Medicaid beneficiaries are actually poor. (WSJ)
  • CBO projects that the national debt in 2054 would be 214 percent of GDP with the federal tax cuts permanently extended.
  • The total income of the bottom fifth of income recipients is more than $65,000 if you count all government provided benefits. (WSJ) 
  • Myth: Poverty is the cause of child abuse.
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Sunday Links

Posted on February 9, 2025February 9, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Gingrich: Goodman Institute is right on eliminating waste.
  • Why we had a baby boom.
  • ​Betsy DeVos: “Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent well more than $1 trillion to schools with the express purpose of closing the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as they have ever been, and by many measures, even wider.”
  • Forever chemicals: “No one has figured out how to destroy the compounds, whose fluorine-carbon bond is the single most stable in organic chemistry, at scale.” 
  • Why is the CDC sitting on three bird flu studies?
  • A Medicaid block grant would save $670 billion over 10 years.
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Sunday Links

Posted on December 29, 2024December 29, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • Biden piles on last minute regulations.
  • There is wide variation in low value care (e.g., PSA testing for men ages 75+) among the states.
  • Medicare Advantage is disproportionately popular among Black, Hispanic, Asian and low-income enrollees.
  • Homelessness reaches the highest level on record.
  • Health insurer denial: a bionic arm for a little girl without a biological arm is medically unnecessary and is for cosmetic use only.
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Sunday Links

Posted on December 15, 2024December 15, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • Cato: “We estimate that the [Inflation Reduction Act] will cost more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years and between $2 trillion and $4 trillion by 2050.”
  • Despite a bumpy start, hospital price transparency requirements are having an effect: a movement toward price convergence.
  • How health insurers use AI to deny health care claims.
  • MAGA opportunity: McKinsey estimates the global market for “consumer wellness” products at $1.8 trillion—making it roughly twice the size of the pharmaceutical industry
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