Category: Interesting Links

Costly Breast Cancer Screenings, and Other Links

Medicare spends about $1.08 billion annually on breast cancer screenings, almost as much as the $1.36 billion it spends to treat the disease.

Strange NYT headline: Despite new health law, some see sharp rise in premiums.

Wake up to the New York Times: Aetna’s CEO predicted this last month – because of the ACA, not in spite of.

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Jan 10, 2013 | 5 comments | by

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops.

Reusable grocery bags may be hazardous to your health. HT: Tyler Cowen.

Is citizen videotaping the police frisking a man before he is loaded in an ambulance a violation of HIPAA?

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Growing Home Schooling, and Other Links

All in the family: Around 2 million children are being home schooled — about the same number as attend charter schools. HT: Scott Sumner.

Women are nicer than men. They needed a study to know that?

A tax on sugar sweetened beverages that increased the price by 20% would lead to an average weight loss of almost 3 pounds over 10 years.

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Bad News on Social Security, and Other Links

Some bad news on Social Security.

How Medicare measures hospital quality.

Socrates to be retried in front of Judge Posner.

The world’s capital markets are 3 ½ times the size of the world’s GDP.

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Jan 09, 2013 | 5 comments | by

Headlines I Liked

Deal fails to satisfy liberal democrats.

Fiscal deal kills new funding for health law’s co-ops.

The CLASS Act is officially repealed.

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Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Senators got 154-page ‘fiscal cliff’ bill 3 minutes before voting on it.

Like a handful of other countries, including Germany and Denmark, Iceland has official rules about what a baby can be named.

Since 2001, more than 150,000 patients nationwide have been exposed to unsafe needles.

Is vegetarianism bad for you?

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Human Brains and Computers, and Other Links

How humans will become robots.

Some fungi appear to be immortal.

From the typical opening distance of 23 inches “the [Champagne] cork needs less than 0.05 seconds to reach the eye.”

Wellness tourism: It costs $106 billion a year.

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Jan 02, 2013 | 6 comments | by

Baker on Medical Tourism, and Other Links

Dean Baker discovers medical tourism and explains how it could save billions for Medicare.

Kling critiques Priceless: Neither Cochrane nor Goodman addresses the arguments for intervention by Arrow and Stiglitz.

Can expressing anger increase your life span?

Study: being neurotic is not all bad.

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Jan 02, 2013 | 9 comments | by

Top 10 Posts from 2012

  1. Did the Election Save ObamaCare?
  2. Bernie Madoff Accounting for Medicare
  3. Troubles Ahead, Troubles Behind (Greg Scandlen)
  4. Is Fee-for-Service the Problem? (Greg Scandlen)
  5. How Not to Think About Health Care
  6. Hypocrisy on Medicare Reform
  7. What’s Wrong with the Health Care Media?
  8. Paul Krugman Doesn’t Have Private Health Insurance
  9. The Anti-Capitalist Mentality
  10. Health Spending Slows, While Premium Growth Accelerates (John R. Graham)
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Updates from Citizen’s Council, and Other Links

Citizen’s Council for Health Freedom has an update on what all the states are doing re: health insurance exchanges.

Some Medicare Advantage plans are creating their own primary care clinics.

WellPoint will offer a new service in all of its plans: Patients will be able to consult with physicians on-demand, using laptop webcams or video-enabled tablets and smartphones.

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