- The Biden administration has given the Palestinians more than $1 billion, following the Trump freeze on aid.
- Kaiser: Employer provided family coverage now costs almost $24,000.
- United Health discontinues an AI-type algorithm it was using to deny patients care.
- Bidenomics: The typical white family’s real income rose 1.3%, between 2019 and 2022. But Black and Hispanic families saw declines of 1.6% and 1.1%, respectively.
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- Gene therapy holds great promise. Employer paid health insurance is capable of paying for it.
- Why Sudafed might work despite the science: it’s called the placebo effect. (NYT)
- Was the RSV vaccine developed by experimenting on poor Black children? (NYT)
- Quote of the day by Arnold Kling:
This is a moment of choosing for the American left. Many will side with Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib. That could damage the Progressive brand. It deserves to be damaged.
Tuesday Links
- Jeff Goldbery explains our disappointing life expectancy statistics: We lead the rest of the developed word in death by guns, suicides, drug overdoses, and in obesity.
- Unpaid caregiving lowers employment and wages – for men caregivers more than women.
- For the lay reader: why Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in economics.
- How liberals live: New York city has more income inequality than any other large city in the country. (NYT)
Tuesday Links
- After vaccines became available, red states had higher death rates, almost certainly as a result of lower vaccine uptake among Republicans.
- New book show how Chile’s economy became the ”jewel of Latin America.”
- Are workers more productive when they work from home?
- One thing George W. got right: PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives.
- How scientists used AI to find two antibiotics for use against the most antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
- mRNA vaccine pioneers win the Nobel Prize. (Shouldn’t’ Trump win as well?)