Category: Interesting Links
Hits and Misses
Relative to body size, our brain is three times the size of a chimpanzee’s brain.
New study: Medicaid can account for at least eight percent of the decline in nonwhite child mortality from 1965 to 1979. HT: Tyler Cowen.
German hospitals promise pain free operations.
CMS: ObamaCare slowed health care spending last year, but it will increase spending this year.
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Casey Mulligan explains why 2014 will see a shift to part-time work; and why that means there will be less work.
Acupuncture is not better than fake acupuncture.
Disaster: only 5% to 10% have paid their first month’s premium.
If the new guidelines are fully implemented, close to a third of all Americans will be on a statin.
Hits and Misses
Almost all of the increase in the overall unpopularity of ObamaCare can be attributed to the growing number of women rebelling against it.
44% of large employers have on-site health care for their employees.
Fake knee surgery just as good as the real thing.
Nationally, more than 6.4 million visits to emergency rooms in 2010, or about 5 percent of total visits, involved patients whose primary diagnosis was a mental health condition or substance abuse. Buy why are they going to the E.R.?
Sense of self-worth boosts IQ by several points and helps people escape poverty.
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Hits and Misses
Can robots replace doctors? HT: Tyler
Yglesias: the case against dividends. (Interesting throughout)
Claims of virgin births in U.S. near 1 percent.
Marijuana use mimics schizophrenia in your brain.
There is no such thing as a Styrofoam cup.
Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queen”: She really existed and she was worse than even Reagan believed.