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Haven’t done one of these in a while but had a little more time.

Flu shot lottery

One thing we’ve seen a number of states experiment with, seemingly successfully, is the idea of using lotteries to incentivize getting Covid-19 vaccines. This seems to me like an idea worth expanding to annual flu shots.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, flu shots are now …

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