- 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.
Category: Thursday Links
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.”
Thursday Links
- What the federal government does with your money and why that’s a problem.
- “These studies find that ACO “gross” savings (which do not account for incentive payments to ACOs) are modest to non-existent, while “net” savings (which account for incentive payments) are vanishingly small or actually represent losses to CMS).”
- Against Kennedy’s autism investigation. (Bloomberg)
- Corruption by Centene and other bad actors.
- The “success sequence” for avoiding poverty: graduate from high school, get a full-time job, and wait until marriage to have children – A DEBATE.