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Tuesday Links

Posted on April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 by John C. Goodman

A Medicare reform that is long overdue: when Medicare Advantage enrollees return to traditional Medicare, they shouldn’t be penalized in the medigap market.

Robin Hanson responds to Scott Alexander: core medicine is effective but it appears that extra medicine (delivered in high spending areas) is not.

San Francisco opens a $1.7 million public toilet. (NYT)

Why it is so hard to know if there is a relationship between red meat and mortality.

States with freer economies attract more immigrants from other states and have higher growth rates.

2 thoughts on “Tuesday Links”

  1. Bart Ingles says:
    April 30, 2024 at 9:13 pm

    The Medicare article appears to advocate in favor of guaranteed issue for all Gap plans, and wonders what effect this would have on premiums. But nowhere does it mention that we already know the answer, which is that Gap premiums are doubled or tripled in guaranteed issue states such as New York. The only question is whether the New York experience should be replicated in the rest of the country.

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  2. Bart Ingles says:
    April 30, 2024 at 9:34 pm

    From the red meat column: “As for significance at the p ≤ 0.05, only 4% (or 48 specifications) were statistically significant.”
    Quite the coincidence. Too bad it wasn’t exactly 5%.

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