- Tax Policy Center: 43 percent of married couples pay more in taxes (averaging $2,064) for being married; another 43 percent pay less (averaging $3,062). Black couples are more likely to pay more.
- Is ice cream healthy for you?
- Woke health: NY The planning to require a “health equity assessment” opening a new facility or slashing or consolidating existing services.
- Doctors got bonuses to give patients the Covid vaccine.
- Why we have crime: the average person sent to jail in 2014 had 10.3 previous arrests (median 8) and 4.3 previous convictions (median 3)!
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- Biden reverses course: ends the National Covid-19 Emergency. Says he still opposes the change.
- Was the Pfizer Covid vaccine properly vetted?
- Study: Competition with Medicare Advantage plans makes traditional Medicare better.
- Third Party Tracking: What happens when you go into the hospital is not just between you and the hospital.
- RFK, Jr. is suing top-ranking U.S. officials, alleging collusion with Facebook, Google, and Twitter to censor social media platforms, re Covid.
Wednesday Links
- Biden Adm: 15 million people are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage, now that the public health emergency is ending. Five states have already started the removal process.
- Does the FDA do more harm than good? Peltzman revisited.
- Poll: Medicare eligible population likes the idea of more free stuff.
- David R. Henderson, reviews Deborah Birx’s new book.
- ChatGPT fails a sophomore economics exam.
Wednesday Links
- US government agencies may have been double billed for work in the Wuhan Lab.
- How weight loss drugs actually work.
- Letting AI practice medicine. (recommended)
- Why are pediatric mortality rates rising?
- Why free community college didn’t work in Oregon.
- Evidence that AI can substantially improve worker productivity.
- California’s “Train to Nowhere.”