Category: Interesting Links

Narcissism in Younger Generations, and Other Links

Are younger generations becoming increasingly narcissistic?

Another one-year ObamaCare delay – this one on out-of-pocket maximums.

Sebelius on Medicaid expansion: “This is not a bait-and-switch.”

Would evidence-based altruism be bad for art museums?

Good ruling for California: School nurses don’t have to be nurses.

Aug 13, 2013 | 13 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Harry Reid: ObamaCare is just a step toward eventual single-payer system.

People have more empathy for battered dogs than battered human adults.

Krugman: for the economy, uncertainly doesn’t matter. (Not kidding. He really is saying this.)

First Dog gets his own airplane.

Aug 12, 2013 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Most Americans Disapprove ObamaCare, and Other Links

Big majorities oppose ObamaCare in CBS, Fox, NBC/WSJ polls.

Red states could beat blues in ObamaCare enrollment. (The reason will surprise you.)

Can a laser test determine when you will die?

Does the moon affect how well you sleep?

Aug 12, 2013 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

One casualty of the new health care law may be paid coverage for families of people who work for small businesses.

Smokers cost employers $5,816 apiece per year; more than half is lost time from smoking breaks.

Aaron Carroll defends rationing in the Oregon Medicaid program.

Aug 09, 2013 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

New Efforts to Get People Signed Up with ObamaCare, and Other Links

Why millions of dollars spent trying to get healthy people to sign up for (ObamaCare insurance) may not work.

On the study finding that overweight people live slightly longer: “This study is really a pile of rubbish, and no one should waste their time reading it.”

Sanjay Gupta: I was wrong about weed.

Scott Sumner takes on Paul Krugman and shows no mercy.

Aug 09, 2013 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

The Obama Administration is hiding the Benghazi survivors, changing their names and dispersing them around the country.

The FBI gave its informants permission to break the law at least 5,658 times in a single year.

Most hospitals have implemented electronic medical records, but only 24% of consumers are making use of them, a new study shows.

Aug 07, 2013 | 10 comments | by John Goodman

Before Modern Medicine, and Other Links

In Sweden in 1751 — well before the modern mortality decline — it was riskier to be a newborn than to be an 80 year old.

Disagreeable and physically unattractive employees receive more abuse from their co-workers. We needed a study for that?

Does the smell of a rose depend on you genes?

Aug 05, 2013 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Doctors increasingly ignore clinical guidelines for back pain.

If the government shuts down, what next? Heritage Action has no Plan B.

Almost anybody can get a free Obamaphone.

Different specialties within the same hospital can provide very different quality of care to the patients.

Aug 01, 2013 | 10 comments | by John Goodman

Including Calorie Counts on Menus, and Other Links

Which has more calories: A doughnut with chocolate frosting or a multigrain bagel?

President Obama and Jared Bernstein are wrong: investment, not consumption, causes economic growth.

David Henderson: Even self-imposed price controls lead to quality reductions.

Income inequality rose faster under Obama than Bush or Clinton…

Aug 01, 2013 | 13 comments | by John Goodman

Redefining Cancer, and Other Links

One way to cut costs: redefine “cancer.”

Medicare patients’ chances of being admitted to the hospital or kept for observation depend on what hospital they go to ― even when their symptoms are the same.

Is psychotherapy over the Internet better than face-to-face counseling?

Jul 31, 2013 | 11 comments | by John Goodman