- Study: physician assisted suicide is at least the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada.
- It’s more common for people in rural areas to die earlier than urban residents from things like heart disease, cancer and stroke.
- If a doctor followed the preventive care checklist recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (services everyone is entitled to for free by Obamacare legislation) it would take 8.6 of the doctor’s hours each day – leaving no time to do anything else.
- 60% of baby and toddler food doesn’t meet nutrition standards.
- The US approach replaces more than 73 percent of pre-retirement earnings for average workers (with Social Security plus pension income), significantly higher than the OECD average of 55.3 percent.
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- Oregon has ended the legalization of hard drugs. WaPo (Essentially anything besides marijuana.)
- No one wants to be a teacher anymore.
- Gender dysphoria in children is temporary – even among teens.
- New Labour Party scheme: NHS staff will turn up at a place of work unannounced and proceed to weigh any employees over the age of 40, check their blood pressure and measure their cholesterol. What about all the people waiting for care?
- What the censors got wrong about covid.
- The gender gap: “boys are behind girls throughout school, especially throughout K12 … the top 10% of students, measured by their GPA, break two-thirds female, one third male; and the bottom 10% … is the other way around.”
Tuesday Links
- The anesthetic drug Matthew Perry overdosed on can be received through the mail. (NYT)
- Free food: 19 million children ate a free lunch last year and 11.1 million ate a free breakfast. (NYT)
- Orszag: DOJ is challenging vertical integration of health care companies, but that is how Obamacare is supposed to work.
- Goodman and Moore: Trump is onto something on Social Security taxation: here is how to fix it.