- MLK fact of the day: black men are more likely to graduate from college than go to prison. In 2009, it was the other way around.
- Workers at 22 federal agencies plan a walk out today to protest Biden’s policies affecting Gaza.
- Last year Congress failed to reauthorize key parts of “the single-most impactful US government program ever, saving 25 million lives over the past 20 years.”
- FAA (which regulates the airlines) has a DEI policy that emphasizes recruiting and hiring people with targeted disabilities, including “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
- The University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine segregates and separates its first-year medical students based on their race, color and/or national origin. (WSJ)
- “Gas station heroin” peddled at convenience stores. (NYT)
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- California state health insurance to cover sex changes for illegal immigrants.
- Good news about the new Covid strain.
- 56% of the economically most impactful technologies come from just two U.S. locations: Silicon Valley and the Northeast Corridor.
- Book: There is a worldwide epidemic of diabetes and it has one cause: carbohydrates.
Tuesday Links
- George W. Bush’s PEPFAR initiative is credited with saving at least 20 million lives. Nick Kristof calls it “the single best policy of any president in my lifetime.”
- Old people are the wealthiest and most powerful demographic in the United States. Despite this, they are overwhelmingly beneficiaries of the welfare state, have seniority rights in employment, and are a protected class when it comes to anti-discrimination laws. This essay argues that this is a bad thing …..
- Dickens on poverty (and an unkind word for economists).
- People think chatbots are more empathetic than doctors 80% of the time.
Tuesday Links
- Health care spending drops back to 17.3% of GDP.
- A less rosy view of the future of heath care spending.
- Paragon Health Institute: Medicaid expansion leads to a surge in spending, but reduces healthcare access for traditional Medicaid enrollees such as low-income children and people with disabilities and it doesn’t improve health.
- Biden: IRA drug rebates are saving seniors “as much as $618 per average dose on 47 prescription drugs.” Reality: Prescription drug prices increased by 2% under Trump, by 5.5% under Biden, and by nearly 6% in November. (WSJ)