Category: Interesting Links
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Between 2014 and 2022, the increase in national health spending (which the Medicare actuaries specifically attribute to ObamaCare) amounts to $7,450 per family of four.
Government regulation may prevent personalized medicine from reaching its potential.
HHS: Individual health insurance premiums will rise by 99% for young men and 62% for young women.
Hits and Misses
How many Californians will sign up for ObamaCare on day one? Two.
Everything you ever wanted to know about a government shutdown. Actually it doesn’t sound that bad.
A way to end the ObamaCare wars: let everyone vote on it next November.
In the labor market we are coming apart.
Why don’t the poor work? Very few say it’s because they can’t find a job. So should we take their food stamps away?
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Prediction: life on Earth will be over somewhere between 1.75 billion and 3.25 billion years from now.
A physician faces disciplinary action for seeing patients on Skype.
Citing ObamaCare, Cleveland Clinic to cut $300M, warns of layoffs.
Guess why business is booming for part-time and contract labor?
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
HHS: 11 million uninsured Americans to obtain coverage next year. Down from about 22 million projected a year ago and 28 million originally.
Hits and Misses
Are cigarette taxes too high? HT: Jason Shafrin.
Can you inherit mental illness?
A post at The Incidental Economist defends the malpractice system. Or does it? Someone send them a copy of my Health Affairs piece — which they keep not reading.
Arnold Kling has a fair and balanced discussion of what’s been happening to median income.
Hits and Misses
Three million people gained insurance last year — but not because of ObamaCare.
Warren Buffett: it’s time to scrap ObamaCare and start all over.
JCG’s blog rated fourth best health policy blog — ahead of Uwe Reinhardt’s NYT posts.
Pennsylvania to expand Medicaid, but only if it is allowed to privatize the system and add workfare.
Hits and Misses
Trader Joe’s to part-time employees: instead of health insurance, you get $500 and an invitation to head for the nearest exchange.
Obama to labor unions: drop dead.
Sadists are more common than you think; they enjoy other people’s pain.
ObamaCare doctors will ask about your sex life; but they can’t ask if you own a fire arm.
Why you eat junk food when you’re anxious: fatty foods reward the brain, which counteracts stress.