- Meta study: unemployment and underemployment lead to (mainly psychological) ill health.
- Study: dual eligible MA “look alike” plans are threatening to undermine full service plans, even though they have only 1.4% of the market.
- “We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation — the limits of which aren’t even clear yet.” (NYT)
- In medicine, the source of junk science often comes from the medical journals themselves.
- ChatGPT-4 takes courses at Harvard. Gets a 3.34 GPA.
- JAMA study: the U.S. maternal mortality rate — already the highest among peer nations — has increased for all racial and ethnic groups.
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- California considers affirmative action for prison sentences.
- Arnold Kling against marijuana.
- “We propose a new priority review voucher program to incentivize competition in limited-competition, small molecule generics markets.”
- Study: “We estimate that the recently proposed US price controls on drugs in the US would raise health care spending by $50.8 billion over a 20-year period.”
Wednesday Links
- Judge: the federal government cannot conspire with social media to limit free speech.
- Expanded Child tax credit: Neither labor force participation nor total hours worked changed significantly during the months when benefits were increased and work requirements were removed.
- Study: Medicare enrollment improves financial health.
- About 39 percent of US workers are engaged in nontraditional work (freelancing, contracting, gig, and self-employment).
Wednesday Links
- An argument that life on earth did not begin on earth.
- Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work — Depression-era work rates for American men ages 25–54.
- David Friedman asks: why are poor people fatter than the nonpoor? The conventional answer is that fast foods are cheaper than healthy foods. But Friedman shows that the reverse is true – per calorie consumed, nutritious food is half the cost of fast food.
- Without fungi, we not only wouldn’t be alive, we never would have evolved.
- In Uganda, where nearly half the people eat fewer calories than they need each day, excess fat is often a sign of wealth.