A bad inflation report, a bad deficit report, a bad ten-year US note auction; Trump got handed a complete bag of shit by Bidementia.
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Financial investor ownership of health care providers results in higher prices.
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The risk formula for payments to Medicare Advantage plans clearly has issues but any changes need to be carefully considered to avoid further bad behavior incentives.
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The latest in our irregular efforts to spread climate truth.
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A recent movie on Bob Dylan is worth a watch, but his songs are what really deserve attention.
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The worker increase is largely immigrants, but only because we have so many native American retirees and slackers.
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An excellent article summarizes the wonderful environmental impacts of "green" energy.
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The evidence clearly shows that masking children made no difference in CV-19 infection rates.
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Teladoc is a poster child for bad health care investments in overhyped technology. The vendor of telemedicine services did very well during the epidemic, did a really stupid purchase of Livongo, a disease management company, tanked its stock and is now trying to recover by making other acquisitions, in this case of Catapult Health for $65 million. Catapult supposedly will help because it has a virtual "wellness" check-up platform that will funnel people to Teladoc's chronic care business. Another poor strategy, over-priced acquisition for a company whose stock has gone from $300 to $12 in four years.
https://medcitynews.com/2025/02/teladoc-catapult-acquisition/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9carSIJkwgD0hVjms-o5H0kg84I3p_rZo_M6M1oppt9bVtnGA9tOsR_9n7ZAA60UEjZ-tx3X2wkxTWyhsy3jXZ6Wj06cZ3_Pi7LWiGeUL7ZEQ2ARc&_hsmi=346247461&utm_content=346247461&utm_source=hs_emailIncorporating major population and job revisions, the report on January jobs is about as expected.
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Studies continue to show essentially no benefit from additional doses of CV-19 vax.
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Nothing super dramatic in the first JOLTS release of 2025.
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