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Insurance, prices, public health, and what the pandemic response got right and wrong.
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What Congress sent schools in COVID relief.
$190 billion. That's what Congress sent schools in COVID relief. Test scores still fell most where schools stayed remote longest. Many big-city districts stayed remote through most of 2020-21. Poor districts were hit hardest, and reading still hadn't recovered by…
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The FBI and the Energy Department both came to lean toward a lab origin for COVID, the FBI with moderate confidence and DOE with low.
Early on, Fauci said publicly that the evidence pointed away from a lab, though his private emails were more nuanced. The Proximal Origin paper dismissed a lab construct while its authors privately had more doubt. As of 2026, there's no…
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~8,200 to 8,700.
Troops discharged for refusing the COVID vaccine mandate — before Congress forced the Pentagon to rescind it in the FY2023 NDAA. The Supreme Court blocked OSHA's 100+ employee vaccine-or-test rule in Jan 2022, while upholding the CMS health-worker mandate the…
BAD — coercion traded short-term compliance for long-term institutional trust
2027 monthly benchmark premium for a 40-year-old, before subsidies, up from $273 in 2014.
$273. That's what a 40-year-old's benchmark Obamacare plan cost per month in 2014, before subsidies. For 2027: $703. About 2.6 times as much. (KFF) Coverage got better. Prices did not. The uninsured rate fell from 13.3% in 2013 to 7.9%…
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What the US spends on health care, roughly double the OECD average, and Americans still live shorter lives.
17.6% of GDP. That's what the US spends on health care, roughly double the OECD average, and Americans still live shorter lives. The main driver is high prices. CMS estimated about $94B in improper Medicare and Medicaid payments in FY2025,…
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