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Category: Thursday Links

Thursday Links

Posted on May 15, 2025May 14, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • $1,139,000,000,000—Minimum amount that Medicaid would continue to grow over the next ten years under the House-passed budget resolution, belying the notion that the budget would “cut” Medicaid spending.
  • Medicaid provider taxes explained.
  • More on the Republican plan to curb the rate of growth of Medicaid, not reduce its spending.
  • Scientific societies call for a moratorium on creating genetically modified children.
  • The average American is now vastly more affluent than the average European.
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Thursday Links

Posted on May 8, 2025May 7, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • As enrollment declines (because of unwinding form Covid levels) the fall in prescriptions paid for by Medicaid or CHIP were mostly offset by an increase in commercial-paid prescriptions.
  • Welfare spending has no effect on the poverty rate.
  • Essay: bad government policies are the reason for almost all of our health care system failures. (Statnews)
  • Social Security crisis in pictures.
  • Krugman doubles down on an old and controversial claim: sweatshops in less developed countries are better than the alternative.
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Thursday Links

Posted on May 1, 2025May 1, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • HHS laid off 10,000 employees earlier this month.
  • Against tariffs on pharmaceuticals.
  • Bucking the trend: Peter Thiel is doing quite well under Trump.
  • Why the big drop in marriage rates among non-college educated women: lack of suitable men.
  • The US fertility rate is now 1.63.
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Thursday Links

Posted on April 24, 2025April 23, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Claim from new paper, via Alex Tabarrok: “Prohibiting the FDA from regulating e-cigarettes reduced smoking attributable mortality by nearly 10% on average each year from 2011-2019 for a total savings of some 677,000 life-years, or approximately 1/3 the estimated benefit of early HIV/AIDS drugs through year 2000.”
  • Results from California: a $20 minimum wage really does cause people to lose their jobs.
  • What UnitedHealth executives get paid.
  • NIH Director: Trump’s anti DEI directive does not prevent research on minority health problems.
  • RFK Jr.’s “ban” on food dyes is actually “voluntary.”
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