- $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.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- 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.
Thursday Links
- 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.”