Tuesday Links

Cost of extending Obamacare enhanced subsidies: CBO and the JCT estimates:

• Direct cost to taxpayer over the next 10 years:  $383 billion.
• Increase in interest payments on the federal debt that would arise from the larger deficit: —$48 billion
• 31 percent of the total cost will go to individuals with incomes over 400 percent of the federal poverty level, including those making as much as $599,000 a year.
• Cost of subsidies to illegal immigrants would reach $11 billion.

Singer: If opiates are killing Americans, why won’t the FDA approve alternatives that are available in other countries.

Claim: Fasting can help with Type 2 Diabetes. (speculative)

The cause of most global deaths: heart disease.