Friday Links

Drug and device shortages are affecting patient care.

Schwab: how a Roth IRA can reduce the Part B and Part D premiums for seniors.

EBRI study: a 65-year-old couple needs as much as $383,000 in savings to have a 90% chance of covering their health care expenses for the rest of their lives.

Yglesias interviews Melissa Kearney on two-parent privilege. Recommended. But she underestimates the penalties the welfare state imposes on marriage. See The Marriage Tax.

Milton Friedman was right: there would be no lasting conflict in the Middle East if they had a laissez-faire economic regime.

Obamacare gives insurers perverse incentive to buy doctors’ clinics, pharmacies, etc. And, that’s what they are doing.