Category: Interesting Links

Hits and Misses

Should you drink eight glasses of water a day? Not according to science.

Michelle Obama: drink more water.

Slate: Old people were invented in the Paleolithic Age.

Your mother was right: Tattoos reduce chances of getting a job.

Life expectancy for poor white women is falling.

Missouri overrides governor’s veto of Good Samaritan law: out of state doctors can now provide free care to Missouri’s poor.

Why so many heart attacks occur in the morning.

Sep 13, 2013 | 14 comments | by Devon Herrick

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

More unintended consequences of ObamaCare: SeaWorld announced its intentions to reduce part-time hours for up to 18,000 part-time employees.

Yahoo CEO: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets.

After spending billions of dollars to build public housing in every major city…over a six-decade period, the U.S. government reversed course in the early 1990s and…some 260,000 units out of 1.3 million nationally have been demolished or removed from the public-housing inventory.

Sep 12, 2013 | 18 comments | by John Goodman

Hits and Misses

Did you know that selling stocks makes you richer, even if you buy them back? One more reason to ignore the latest inequality claims.

Ethics question: should we redistribute organs?

Should medicine still be considered an art?

Good news: no evidence that primary care physicians offer less care to Medicaid, community health center, or uninsured patients. Bad news: access is not the same.

Sep 12, 2013 | 22 comments | by John Goodman

How Climate and Violence Are Linked, and Other Links

Does global warming cause violence?

iPhone can do an EKG; let diabetics monitor their glucose as they eat.

Beer brands associated with the most ER visits: Budweiser, Steel Reserve, Colt 45, Bud Ice and Bud Light.

Can music determine how safely you drive?

Sep 11, 2013 | 19 comments | by John Goodman

How to Save $17,000 by Not Using Insurance, and Other Links

Without health insurance, a $20,000 bill becomes $3,000.

Even apes suffer midlife crises.

Women are more honest.

Should divorce settlements pay for fertility treatments?

Sep 10, 2013 | 16 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Health costs of war.

Robert Reich: Socialize private charity: Parent gifts to their children’s schools should be shared equally with other schools.

Alan Grayson: there’s scant and circumstantial evidence that Assad ordered the attack.

Mississippians are the fattest people in the nation, and also are the most insecure about getting their next meal.

Sep 10, 2013 | 24 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

The NSA can look at your electronic medical records.

ObamaCare will insure 25 million and leave 31 million uninsured.

Americans have $18 billion in Health Savings Accounts.

Seventy percent of D.C.’s pregnancies are unintended.

Sep 09, 2013 | 19 comments | by John Goodman

ObamaCare’s Approval Ratings, and Other Links

Who dislikes ObamaCare the most: older men and women vs. younger and marrie d vs. single.

Despite ObamaCare, ER physicians are in great demand.

Women are better than men at managing high deductibles.

Another bad jobs report.

Sep 06, 2013 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

An argument for sacrificing your child to the greater good by keeping him in a (bad) public school.

Crime has not fallen in the United States, it has shifted ― to the inside of prisons.

Most Americans can’t find Syria on a map. Does that matter?

Could our bombing Syria kill more civilians than the chemical weapons killed?

Study: Nearly half of U.S. births paid for by Medicaid.

ObamaCare IT requirements being outsourced to India.

Sep 05, 2013 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Dinosaurs Died of Breast Cancer Too, and Other Links

150 million year old dinosaur had breast cancer.

Blue Shield of California to enrollees: don’t expect us to pay for proton beam therapy.

David Friedman on who has and who hasn’t used poison gas.

Are left-handed people smarter? HT: Tyler Cowen

Repealing the individual mandate is a budget winner.

Sep 04, 2013 | 14 comments | by John Goodman