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Fail fast in statistical computing. NBA’s $600m man. Medicaid coverage and abortion rates. On open AI (not written Open AI) Parallels:child care vs. health care in Canada.

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Gene editing without CRISPR? RCTs in economics. Claude and GTP4o on bias-adjusted nearest neighbor matching. Opioid prescriptions falling in workers comp. Since 2010, 149 rural hospitals have closed. Digital Health startups raise $1.1b in Q1 2024.

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Why is NIH funding small trials? (there’s a good reason!) First bird flu death in humans. Employee responses to CEO activism. How rich were the rich? ‘Hot hand’ and fantasy baseball.

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South Park on the American health care system Social science genomics. Blood donation or high interest loan? Cost doesn’t equal quality (1, 2, 3) Will the market accept cell therapies?

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Rise in reported US maternal mortality rates largely due to change in measurement ChatGPT 4o and Khan Academy. FDA clinical trial snapshots: 2023. Do some Medicaid beneficiaries even know they are insured? Do PBMs reduce prices?

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LLM approach expert levels in ophthalmology. Price controls in health care (Argentina) Will bird flu (H5N1) animal pandemic spread to humans? Lex Fridman interview with Mark Cuban (with discussion of Cost Plus Drugs) Spotlight on Medicare’s Chronic Care Management program.

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Generative AI for economists. Juvenile curfews on teenage birth rates. Cato on Biden Short‐​Term Health Plans Rule. Parents’ education on children’s earnings. DTx for MDD.