Can Health Insures Do That?

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Lower income and less educated workers who werestill having to drive during the pandemics. They still had to go places,. including to work, whereas all the rich people stayed home. And so it changed the socio economic composition of who was on the roads. Now, should we allow insures to take account of that? Wethey allowed to do age and ol howd to do sex? But, you know, and why are they alloed to do it, but not other people? Can health insaries do it by educational policy makers? Can't dit? Oh, interesting. Yes, i really thought about that.

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.