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Wednesday Links – 27 March 2024

Posted on March 27, 2024March 26, 2024 by John C. Goodman

Contrary to the AMA and the CDC, there is no maternal mortality crisis. The authors found that the maternal mortality rate remained essentially flat between 1999 and 2002 (10.2 per 100,000 live births) and 2018 and 2021 (10.4). This would put the U.S. on par with other developed countries.

Biden to lower the hammer on short-terms health insurance plans any day now.

There were 17,597 dog bite liability claims filed across the country in 2022, with payouts totaling more than $1 billion.

Average life expectancy has declined because a lot of young people are dying early (e.g., drug overdoses); among people who make it to old age, life expectancy is longer than ever.

1 thought on “Wednesday Links – 27 March 2024”

  1. Bart Ingles says:
    March 27, 2024 at 8:47 pm

    I would have thought that if the administration had the authority to limit STM plans to four months, they would have done so a long time ago. That they even want to do this shows that the idea of an individual mandate as a way to require personal responsibility is a nothing but a lie, and that it was always about forcing people to take part in an arbitrary backdoor taxation scheme.
    A non-means-tested tax credit for users of Obamacare, intended to offset part of the implied premium tax on healthy people, would go a long way toward making individual mandates and bans on private insurance unnecessary.

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