5mg daily Crestor (a very small dose) cut my ApoB in half from ~130 mg/dL to 61. I’ve had no negative side effects.

The decrease is likely just the result of the demographic shift caused by an aging population, as the notes say. Unrelated to the overall health of the economy.

Then who pays? If your argument is that we should socialize the cost of that ambulance ride across all Americans, they won’t go for that. Americans don’t want more taxes, but more importantly, Americans deeply mistrust their fellow citizens, and don’t want to feel like they’re paying for someone else’s life decisions.

America doesn’t have the same kind of social cohesion as most countries. We’re a nation of individualists. The general feeling here (rightly or wrongly) is that healthcare costs are largely driven by your choices in life, and Americans don’t want to feel like they’re on the hook for other people’s bad choices.

There are many people, myself included, who don’t want to be patronized or “protected from ourselves” and prevented from accessing data about our bodies.

An MRI, blood test, continuous glucose monitor, etc. carry essentially no intrinsic risk. It’s ridiculous that we need prescriptions for such things.

What I do or don’t do with that data is my prerogative.

The problem is that my tax dollars and insurance dollars pay for people who make mistakes with their own health, so you don't and can never live in a bubble unless you opt out of modern medicine entirely

Prevention is cheaper than treatment.

The government does tell you the information it has. Most people don’t realize this and therefore aren’t optimizing their taxes, but it is a trick known by accountants.

Each year, you should file an extension and then wait for your IRS to publish its transcript (in May I believe) that shows all the wage/income and other info the IRS has on you.

You should use a RO or carbon filter even if the government is doing everything right.

Chlorine needs to stay in city water to disinfect all the distribution pipes throughout a city. But at point of use, you should not be drinking/bathing in chlorine or chlorine disinfection byproducts.

Thank you for this post. When I was laid off, a coworker reached out to me via email like how you suggested. He was the only one. That simple email meant a lot to me.

Congrats on the launch! I would have loved this kind of structure as a kid.

Thanks!

This is well intentioned but bad advice.

Studies in behavioral finance are clear that ordinary investors should not invest in individual stocks over indexes. There are too many pitfalls.

Even hedge funds with teams of sector analysts rarely beat the market consistently.

Agree, you also need chlorine in the water to treat the distribution system of pipes to your home. So you need to filter chlorine at point of use anyways.