- Sales of dog strollers last year outpaced those of baby strollers for the first time in South Korea – home to the world’s lowest birthrate.(WSJ)
- How the New York Times stoked Covid alarmism.
- “Overall, benchmark premiums increased 75 percent between 2014 and 2024—more than 60 percent higher than the premium growth in employer plans during this time.”
- Does Joe Stiglitz deserve the blame for thousands of murders and poverty and misery in Venezuela?
- Taxpayers lose to fraud, fraud and more fraud.
- Means-tested social-welfare spending totaled $1.6 trillion in 2023, absorbing 72.6% of unobligated general revenue minus Social Security, Medicare and interest payments.
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- We are already soaking the rich:
- The top one percent pay almost half of the income tax.
- The top five percent pay almost two-thirds of the income tax.
- The top 10% pay over 75% of the income tax.
- The top half pay 97.7%
- Around bats that eat insects, infant mortality goes down.
- Many new FDA-approved products experience long delays before Medicare agrees to pay for them.
- “The best prediction is that the Harris plan [generous child tax credit without a work requirement] could lead well over a million parents to exit employment.”
Saturday Links
- What the classical thinkers thought about mental health.
- More than 300 hospitals are deploying or preparing to dispatch paramedics, nurse practitioners and other medical staff to treat patients at home instead of in hospital settings, a service widely referred to as hospital at home. They get paid the same hospital-stay rate. (WSJ)
- George Halvorson calls MedPac report “fake news.”
- More on diet and dementia. Study: an anti-inflammatory diet reduced the risk of developing dementia by 31 percent.
- 450 agents and brokers suspended for enrolling and switching people in exchange plans without their consent.
- Is RFK Jr right? Is a surge in chronic diseases, cancer, neurodevelopmental disorders, metabolic syndrome, and Alzheimer’s disease caused by Big Sugar, Big Ag, Big Pharma, and the cabal of government sycophants who do the bidding of their corporate sugar daddies?
- “Social capital” for individuals increases with market income and decreases with government transfer payments.
Saturday Links
- Henderson: the case for immigration.
- Why inequality can be a good thing.
- Chronically ill patients with high deductible health plans are highly sensitive to out-of-pocket costs for telemedicine.
- Harris would add $1.7 trillion to federal spending. And that doesn’t include Medicare for All.
- When drug companies assist patients in paying for their drugs, should that assistance count toward the patient’s insurance plan deductibles and coinsurance?
- Unintended consequences: Could the IRA bill lead to increased enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans?