Category: Interesting Links

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Berwick: Letting patients control their own health care dollars is a “vicious idea.” HT: Avik Roy.

Chicken has E. coli half of the time.

Study: obese workers cost employers $1,850 a year; smokers cost $1,275.

Apr 17, 2012 | 5 comments | by John Goodman

Longer Years-Shorter Days, and Other Links

Around 2.4 billion years ago, the days were perhaps 18 hours long and there were more than 460 days in the year.

Tyler Cowen out to lunch. A new look on food.

Theory of group selection gets serious. E.O. Wilson has a new book.

Apr 16, 2012 | 5 comments | by John Goodman

Shallow Attractive People, and Other Links

Sexual frustration drives males to drink; at least in fruit flies.

Why are Americans so much fatter than the French?

Willpower is more important than intelligence in determining success.

Video games have health benefits.

Apr 10, 2012 | 5 comments | by Devon Herrick

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

NCAA ads are wrong: athletes are 20 percent less likely to graduate than nonathletes…black athletes are 33 percent less likely.

Andrea Mitchell praises Cuban health care (but “you have to bring your own bed sheets” when you enter a hospital).

Study: Obese Men Have 80% Higher Odds of Producing No Sperm.

Apr 10, 2012 | 5 comments | by John Goodman

Mammography Screenings Gone Wrong, and Other Links

David Henderson defends Apple: there’s nothing wrong with working 60 hours a week. (I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember!)

The case against mammograms.

Does being promoted lead to better health?

Does low socioeconomic status have to bring poor health outcomes?

Do High-Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care?

Apr 09, 2012 | 3 comments | by John Goodman

TVs In Waiting Rooms, and Other Links

Should TVs be in waiting rooms?

Health care acronyms explained.

Apr 05, 2012 | 6 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Can’t Believe

Mother of Trayvon Martin seeks to trademark his name.

Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan.

Eating lots of chocolate helps people stay thin, study finds.

Apr 03, 2012 | 7 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Obama wants to raise the top tax rate on dividends to 44.6% – almost triple today’s 15% rate.

Prudential Financial will be the 10th of the top 20 insurers by sales to announce that it is leaving the market for individual long-term-care policies in the past five years,

Mar 27, 2012 | 4 comments | by John Goodman

The SCOTUS/ObamaCare Edition

My interview with US News; the problems are going to be huge, whether or not the SCOTUS strikes down the mandate.

The constitutionality of the health care law may come down to wheat, pot, guns — and a nagging question about broccoli.

Gruber reverses course: ObamaCare will increase premiums by 19-30 percent.

Mar 23, 2012 | 7 comments | by John Goodman