Tuesday Links – Page 31 – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Tuesday Links

Posted on April 23, 2024April 22, 2024 by John C. Goodman

Yglesias on why our life expectancy is lower than in other developed countries: Americans are more likely to die violently, to die in car accidents, and to die of drug overdoses than are Europeans. We’re also a lot fatter.
Why doing university-based research has become so costly.
Self-directed care is now available for veterans in rural areas – and it works.
Fallout from the Dobbs decision: tubal ligations and vasectomies are up.
Suppose you are willing to be a guinea pig in a medical experiment. Where can you find out where your sacrifice will have the highest social value? No one seems to know.

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Tuesday Links

Posted on April 16, 2024April 15, 2024 by John C. Goodman

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.

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Tuesday Links

Posted on April 9, 2024April 9, 2024 by John C. Goodman

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.

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Tuesday Links

Posted on April 2, 2024April 1, 2024 by John C. Goodman

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.

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