Saturday Links

Posted on by John C. Goodman

Landmark 15-year transgender study: Around one-in-10 children expressed “gender non-contentedness” to varying degrees. But by age 25, just one-in-25 (4 percent) said they “often” or “sometimes” were discontent with their gender.

Illegal immigrants are leaving hospitals with billions in unpaid hospital bills.

Was your operation performed by a doctor? Or by a medical student in training? And how do you really know?

Only half of all adults are married. And that’s not good, because “Marriage predicts happiness better than education, work and money.” (NYT)

NEJM in the 1930s: “When it did address Nazi ‘medical’ practices, the Journal enthusiastically praised German forced sterilization and the restrictive alcohol policies of the Hitler Youth.”

More on why the 2017 tax cut was a good idea.

1 thought on “Saturday Links”

  1. Could it be that marriage predicts happiness the way that point-of-impact predicts trajectory?

    The 2017 tax cuts reduced tax expenditures going toward homeownership by about half. This is a significant revenue source, offsetting some of the cuts. I wouldn’t mind seeing this part renewed, even if rates don’t stay as low as they are now.

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