Category: Thursday Links

• In Madagascar, lemurs are a delicacy – to dine on.
• Ultra processed foods are bad for the stomach and the intestines. (NYT)
• There are 3.2 million home health aides and personal care aides on the job last year, up from 1.4 million a decade ago – one-third of them are immigrants.
• What Britain will pay for drugs: about $26,500 to $40,000 for a healthy year of life saved.
• Why Social Security and Medicare need immigrants:

If all immigration were stopped, America’s working-age population would fall by about 5% through 2035 … while the number of seniors older than 80 — who generate much larger bills per person for Medicare … — will double.

• Jeff Goldsmith abandons Medicare Advantage.