Category: Interesting Links

Extinct Primary Care Clinic Nurses, and Other Links

Where have all the nurses gone?

Ten ways to reduce the crime rate without annoying the NRA.

Scoring Reinhart and Rogoff, the critics and the pundits. (The pundits [guess who?] come off worse.)

Apr 23, 2013 | 9 comments | by John Goodman

PSA Tests Anticipate Prostate Cancer, and Other Links

A PSA test given before age 50 can predict half of all deaths from prostate cancer.

Are co-payments for home care a bad thing?

Is meditation good for your health?

Is going to church good for your health?

Apr 23, 2013 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Tax-exempt hospitals spend an average of 7.5% of their operating expenses on community benefits.

First the “doc fix”; now a hospital fix.

Will regulations make HSA plans unattractive under ObamaCare?

Apr 22, 2013 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Functional Music by Brian Eno, and Other Links

Surgeon prescribes Brian Eno music to patients. HT: Tyler Cowen

Doctors order 9% fewer tests when they know how much the tests cost.

There are 2,800 (and probably more) public schools in America that are de facto private schools.

Apr 22, 2013 | 7 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Sen. Max Baucus: fears President Barack Obama’s health care law is headed for a “huge train wreck.”

Veterinarian punished for engaging in Internet consultations.

The $35 billion initiative to promote the use of electronic health records is actually raising costs; and that’s only one of the problems.

Doctors lobby to reduce health care labor shortage, leaving out nurses, others.

Apr 18, 2013 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Health Policy Languages, and Other Links

When I talk to the health policy community I always speak disfluently.

Why not have evidence-based government?

This year’s tax return determines next year’s ObamaCare subsidy.

Roofer’s union changes its mind: ready to repeal ObamaCare.

Republicans find something in ObamaCare they like: the high risk pool.

Apr 18, 2013 | 13 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Companies won’t even look at resumes of the long-term unemployed.

Telemedicine may not be cutting costs.

Nation’s largest theater chain cuts work week, blaming ObamaCare.

White House brain initiative may be stymied by the medical device tax.

Apr 16, 2013 | 14 comments | by John Goodman

Fattest Regions in the U.S., and Other Links

Where do the fattest people in the U.S. live? Hint: it’s not the South.

Do apple-shaped people get more kidney disease?

People are less likely to trust and follow the advice of a fat doctor.

Why you can’t eat only one potato chip.

Apr 15, 2013 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

At least 28 former Max Baucus aides are now tax lobbyists.

Obama to health insurance executives: We are now “joined at the hip.”

ObamaCare regulations: photo.

Return emergency room visits after discharge not counted in readmission rates.

Apr 15, 2013 | 6 comments | by John Goodman

Concierge Medicine is the New Trend, and Other Links

The economics of concierge medicine.

Doctor owned hospitals outperform others on quality measures.

What if we all died at forty?

How American parents are different: we’re obsessed with cognitive skills.

Apr 15, 2013 | 13 comments | by John Goodman