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In 2020, Medicare premiums and cost sharing were estimated to consume 24 percent of the average Social Security benefit, up from 14 percent in 2000. The Medicare Trustees estimate that in another 20 years, these costs will consume 31 percent of the average Social Security benefit. Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MedPAC), March 2021 report
Once you start trading for yourself, you start thinking for yourself. Yeonmi Park, escapee from North Korea, author of In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
30. If you listen to successful people talk about their methods, remember that all the people who used the same methods and failed did not make videos about it. “100 Tips for a Better Life” from LessWrong.
“The highest form of wisdom is kindness.” – The Talmud, Brachot 17a
From George Gubernikoff in JAMA Cardiology in a piece titled “The Great Technological Divide“: All too frequently as rounds are made in the hospital, physicians jockey for access to computer terminals. Hours spent entering information in required fields leave little time to enter a patient room and engage in conversation let alone perform a physical…
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less Marie Curie
Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points. The Technium, “68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice“
In anticipation of the Thanksgiving Holiday… We can complain that rose bushes have thorns or we can rejoice that thorn bushes have roses.” Abraham Lincoln For me every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart every time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.” Elie Wiesel Gratitude is…
“It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it.” Rabbi Tarphon
The difference between “significant” and “not significant” is not itself statistically significant. Gelman and Stern (2006)