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CATO Unbound

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CATO Unbound

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CATO Unbound is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 30, 2024 and May 10, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as ""In his CATO Unbound article""; “I did a Cato Unbound forum about 10 years ago”; “Robin quoted more of his CATO Unbound article”. It most often appears alongside Hanson, Robin, Scott.

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  • Category: Publications
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 30, 2024
  • Last seen: May 10, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Response to Hanson On Health Care
April 30, 2024 · Original source
Okay, then how do we halve medical care? In his CATO Unbound article, I interpret him as saying it didn’t matter how you did it, because “most any way to implement such a cut would likely give big gains.”
Inline links: his CATO Unbound article
I did a Cato Unbound forum about 10 years ago where my starting essay was cut medicine in half, and a number of prominent health economists responded there. None of them disagreed with my basic factual claims about the correlation of health and medicine and other things, but, still, many of them were reluctant to give up on many medicine. They said, “Well, yes, on average, it doesn’t help, but some of it must be useful and, uh, we shouldn’t cut anything until we figure out what the useful parts are,” and I make the analogy of that with a monkey trap.
Highlights From The Comments On Hanson And Health Care
May 10, 2024 · Original source
In response to my most recent post, Robin quoted more of his CATO Unbound article, then wrote:
Inline links: Robin