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An enormous literature documents that better off people are healthier than worse off people (entry points here or here). But that’s not the same thing as showing that transferring resources from the rich to the poor would improve the health...
Several readers sent me the following study at the end of last week. “Caloric effect of a 16-ounce (473-mL) portion-size cap on sugar-sweetened beverages served in restaurants“: Background: New York City recently proposed a restriction to cap the portion size...
In the New England Journal of Medicine Nick Seddon and Thomas Lee make a claim worth considering and discussing. Only when societies commit to covering all their citizens with their limited resources do they take on the difficult work of...
We’ve all heard about Oregon’s Medicaid experiment, but there was another one recently that deserves a bit of attention too: Wisconsin’s.Unlike Oregon, Wisconsin did not randomize people into eligibility for Medicaid. But it did do something that makes it a...
Given my repeated lambasting of the Obama administration for their seemingly anti-science view of Plan B, it’s only fitting that I also note their reversal: The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the most...