Category: Interesting Links

ACOs on Fee-For-Service Medicine, and Other Links

Are 25 to 31 million Americans really receiving their care through ACOs?

Nader: Obama is worse than Bush.

Doctors face a worse fiscal cliff.

Dec 03, 2012 | 9 comments | by John Goodman

Happiness Can Make You Wealthy, and Other Links

Happy adolescents are more likely to be wealthy in adulthood.

Unemployment and multiple job losses boosts heart attack risk.

Average adult consume 5% of calories in the form of alcohol.

Nov 29, 2012 | 10 comments | by Devon Herrick

Oklahoma Doctors vs. ObamaCare, and Other Links

A surgery center that posts its prices. (video)

Although black women get mammograms as often as white women, by the time of diagnosis the disease has spread to other organs in 45 percent of blacks, compared with 35 percent of whites.

Nov 29, 2012 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

Shopping Does You Good, and Other Links

New study on retail therapy finds shopping relieves sadness.

Attention werewolves: Full moon does not up psychological problems.

Injured patients are more likely to survive if intoxicated; however, intoxicated people are more likely to injure themselves.

Nov 28, 2012 | 9 comments | by Devon Herrick

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Americans can no longer bet on Intrade.

45% would rather skip Christmas.

KHN columnist complains that health insurance doesn’t cover medical marijuana.

About half of Medicare beneficiaries who received diagnostic testing had the same procedure unnecessarily repeated within three years.

Krugman: Bring back the 91% tax rate.

Nov 27, 2012 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

To burn off those extra [Thanksgiving dinner] 2,000 calories, a 180-pound person would have to walk briskly (about 3.5 miles an hour on a level surface) for 5 hours or more.

Company fires 150 employees for not getting flu shots.

Republicans publish a copyright memo; then withdraw it a day later.

Condoleezza Rice: War is not receding in the Middle East. It is building to a crescendo.

Nov 26, 2012 | 9 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Teacher credentials don’t matter.

One-quarter of all Medicare claims submitted by skilled nursing facilities include errors and most of those were “upcoded” to result in higher payments.

FDA could have prevented the meningitis outbreak.

Nov 16, 2012 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

Tax Hikes vs. Spending Cuts, and Other Links

Tax hikes are worse for the economy than spending cuts.

Physicians with the least experience have higher cost profiles.

We’re not a center-right country; we’re a center-libertarian country. HT: David Henderson.

Nov 16, 2012 | 8 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Goldman Sachs: There is a huge amount of investible cash that is now sitting on the sidelines, waiting for sensible reforms.

Why we don’t have a flat tax: current total tax expenditures in the United States hover around $1 trillion, with over 80 percent accruing to individuals and the remainder to corporations.

There were more than 250 generic drug shortages in 2011 compared with 58 in 2004, thanks largely to the Medicare Modernization Act.

Nov 15, 2012 | 10 comments | by John Goodman

Heart Disease in Older-Looking People, and Other Links

People who look old — with receding hairlines, bald heads, creases near their ear lobes or bumpy deposits on their eyelids — have a greater chance of developing heart disease than younger-looking people the same age.

Rationing ahead: Doctors are working 6 percent fewer hours and treating 17 percent fewer patients than they were four years ago.

About 1% to 3% of men in the general population could be classified as psychopaths. That is more than four million people in the United States alone.

Nov 14, 2012 | 10 comments | by John Goodman