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Also: Health lessons from a barbershop View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Monday, May 21, 2018 [NYTimes.com/Upshot »]( [Is Capital or Labor Winning at Your Favorite Company? Introducing the Marx Ratio]( By NEIL IRWIN Publicly held corporations now must disclose their median employee compensation. Those numbers gave us an idea for a new analytical approach to an age-old struggle. The New Health Care [What Barbershops Can Teach About Delivering Health Care]( By AARON E. CARROLL One reason that an experiment to reduce high blood pressure in a high-risk population succeeded is that it adapted its approach to encourage trust. [Trump’s New Health and Human Services Secretary Is a Joyful Regulator]( By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ In an administration with a deregulatory bent, Alex Azar relishes his policymaking powers. ADVERTISEMENT FEEDBACK For suggestions on how we can improve this newsletter, write to newsletters@nytimes.com. If you have a compelling data set you’d like us to pursue, send it to [dear.upshot@nytimes.com](mailto:dear.upshot@nytimes.com?subject=Upshot%20Newsletter%20Feedback). Weekly Highlights [As an Insurer Resists Paying for ‘Avoidable’ E.R. Visits, Patients and Doctors Push Back]( By REED ABELSON, MARGOT SANGER-KATZ AND JULIE CRESWELL Guessing wrong on when a condition is a life-threatening medical emergency could mean a large bill. Or worse. [Behind New York’s Housing Crisis: Weakened Laws and Fragmented Regulation]( By KIM BARKER Affordable housing is vanishing as landlords exploit a broken system, pushing out rent-regulated tenants and catapulting apartments into the free market. [U.K. vs. U.S.: How Much of Your Personal Data Can You Get?]( By NATASHA SINGER AND PRASHANT S. RAO We decided to test how easy it soon might be for people in Europe to access their personal data compared with users in the United States. In Case You Missed It ...  [We Made a Tool So You Can Hear Both Yanny and Laurel]( By JOSH KATZ, JONATHAN CORUM AND JON HUANG How far do you have to move our slider to hear one name or the other? [A bottle of laudanum, a highly addictive liquid preparation of opium widely used as a painkiller and sleep aid in the late 19th century.]( Country Doctor Museum, East Carolina University [America’s 150-Year Opioid Epidemic]( By CLINTON LAWSON What can the country learn from the opium crisis of the 19th century? LIKE THIS EMAIL? Forward it to your friends, and let them know they can sign up [here.]( ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW UPSHOT [Facebook] [FACEBOOK]( [Twitter] [@UpshotNYT]( Get more [NYTimes.com newsletters »]( | Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. [Subscribe »]( ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's The Upshot newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Change Your Email]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( | [Advertise]( Copyright 2018 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018