Category: Interesting Links
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Hits and Misses
If California nurse practitioners had same scope of practice as NPs in 17 other states, California could save $1.8 billion in 10 years.
Lab mice respond differently to scents of men versus women. (This has implications for medical research).
Diane Furchtgott-Roth on Gary Becker’s contributions to economics.
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Some hospices decline to treat the dying.
Paper: 90,000 Nevada residents could lose health insurance due to ObamaCare…
72 percent of physicians say their peers order at least one unnecessary test per week.
U.S. is one of only eight countries where maternal deaths in childbirth rose, 2003-2013.
Massachusetts is ditching its ObamaCare exchange, replacement to cost $100 million.
Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Hits and Misses
What Uber could teach Medicare: New Year’s Eve price is 6.25 times the normal price.
Pennsylvania will be the first state to have a work requirement for Medicaid.
Is diabetes a global epidemic?
Drug discovery is one of the most wasteful research activities on the planet (which explains why they charge $84,000 for a drug that stops Hepatitis C).