Category: Interesting Links

The ACA According to Rockefeller, and Other Links

Jay Rockefeller: The Affordable Care Act is probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress…It’s beyond comprehension.

Telemedicine advances all the way to Antarctica.

Top ten tax hikes in President Obama’s budget.

Apr 11, 2013 | 15 comments | by John Goodman

Long-Term Care in the 13th Century, and Other Links

How did the English deal with long term care in the 13^th century? The capitalist way: parents and children formed contracts.

Feeling lonely won’t kill you; being alone might.

Why have men quit working?

Is the sequestration killing seniors?

Apr 09, 2013 | 13 comments | by John Goodman

Performance Variation on ED Measures, and Other Links

For-profit hospitals are outperforming nonprofit and public hospitals in treating emergency department patients for stroke, heart attack and pneumonia.

How doctors die: they don’t die like the rest of us. HT: Jason Shafrin.

America has the most progressive tax system in the world.

Krugman wrong again: This time about Herbert Hoover.

Apr 08, 2013 | 8 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

It’s easier to apply for green card than ObamaCare.

As economy flails, debtors’ prisons thrive: jailing for failure to pay traffic fines and court fees.

Because of the sequester cuts, cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Why can’t they drop the “free” wellness exams instead?

The annual cost of dementia is between $157 billion and $215 billion — that’s as much as $2,000 per household per year.

Apr 05, 2013 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Only 2 percent of E-prescribing alerts prompted any action from physicians during patient visits. Most alerts were “too much, too late.”

The marriage tax: Overturning DOMA could increase federal tax revenues by $1 billion a year.

Kaiser Health News tells you everything that can go wrong with a Health Savings Account.

Apr 03, 2013 | 7 comments | by John Goodman

Defining the Shapley Value, and Other Links

Do you know what a Shapley value is?

Are candy bars with green packaging healthier?

Do markets encourage people to be nice?

Samoa Air is first to price tickets by the passenger pound.

Apr 03, 2013 | 17 comments | by John Goodman

You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department

Krugman: Far from presiding over a Greek-style crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown is proclaiming a comeback.

Stockton, California declares bankruptcy.

The Sacramento Bee says California is insolvent.

Apr 02, 2013 | 13 comments | by John Goodman

Technologies Behind Google, and Other Links

I, google. (HT: Tyler)

MetaMed: they claim they can improve on cookbook medicine.

What happens when the benchmark, on which all other [ObamaCare] policies sold in the exchange will be based, is too costly for people to buy?

America’s shift to generic drugs has saved consumers more than a $1 trillion over a decade.

ObamaCare may pay for sex change operations.

Mar 29, 2013 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Doctors don’t want patients to see their electronic medical records.

38% of hospital readmissions are avoidable.

Fast food companies: ObamaCare may not be so bad if the employees don’t sign up for insurance.

HHS: On using Medicaid money to buy private insurance: “Yes” to Arkansas. “No” to Tennessee.

Or did it? Gov. Haslam: “Of our request to Medicaid, we got one or two yes’s, one or two no’s, and a whole lot of I don’t knows.“

Mar 28, 2013 | 12 comments | by John Goodman