- Tax Day remembrance: The top rate was once 91%. The corporate rate was 52%. The capital gains rate was 25%. The tax on top estates was 77%. But the tax take was only 16% of national income.
- Why is there a shortage of Adderall?
- How the DEA is creating drug shortages.
- Missile defense: Beginning in the Reagan administration and right up through the GW Bush administration, many experts and many more nonexperts claimed it couldn’t work. “You can’t hit a bullet with a bullet,” was a popular catchphrase. But on Sunday, that is exactly what US/Israeli defense forces did – with incredibly accurate precision.
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- Is there a Trump health plan?
- Can a smart phone cure your depression?
- A Hayekian approach to health care. But why was she working in the Obama administration?
- JAMA study: 41% of cancer drugs granted accelerated approval did not improve overall survival or quality of life.
Tuesday Links
- Food stamp households spend a disproportionate share of their food budget on unhealthy items, such as sugary beverages and prepared desserts. And it’s worse than other low-income households who don’t have food stamps.
- Social Security tells Kotlikoff the number of Social Security clawback letters per year is probably closer to 3 million. (It started at 1M in a congressional hearing; then jumped to 2M in answer to a FOIA request by KFF; and now it’s at 3M. (No telling what the real answer is.)
- Less than half of the benefit of Obamacare subsides goes to the newly insured. One-third of it is wasted.
- In 2023, 79 percent of (Obamacare) enrollees received subsidies (up from 44 percent in 2015), at an average cost of $20,739 per enrollee gaining coverage.
Tuesday Links
- Why your EV is mostly made in China even if it is produced in the U.S.
- NYT finally admits that Covid school closures were harmful.
- Primary care costs less in Medicare Advantage.
- Research has linked diets high in ultra-processed foods to increased risks of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and depression.
- Roughly one in five relatively healthy people over the age of 50 has at least one organ that is aging much more quickly than the others.