Dr. Conrad Murray, sentenced to four years in prison for helping to kill Michael Jackson, can still get paid by Medicare.
7,000 British operations cancelled while hospital workers go on strike.
World’s Once-Fattest Man Wants Public to Pay for Plastic Surgery to Remove Excess Skin.
Middle- to upper-income Americans eat the most fast food, rather than low-income populations.
Hospital mergers associated with increased treatment intensity and higher inpatient mortality rates.
In a kidney transplant, everybody gets paid except the donor. (video) David Henderson commentary.
Electronic cigarettes cut smoking by 50%. They’re opposed by “abstinence-only” advocates, who are mainly on the left.
West Virginians consume twice as many antibiotics as Alaskans.
Which members of Congress are in the top 1%? Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein are among them.
1 in 5 Americans have eaten an entire pie by themselves. See Parade Magazine’s history of pie here.
These are courtesy of Scott Sumner:
Study: Colonization was good. Islands colonized earlier have higher GDPs.
Bryan Caplan: Obama blew it on the payroll tax cut.
Karl Smith: just because progressives are hypocrites, doesn’t mean they are wrong.
Tyler Cowen: redistributionists should give more of their money away, anyway.
22 Brits have given a kidney to a stranger.
Arnold Kling: the financial crisis was not caused by deregulation because there was no deregulation.
Jack Abramoff tells “60 Minutes” how to bribe members of Congress. Ezra Klein weighs in as well.
UCLA medical officials: 16,000 patients’ information data stolen.
Legalizing medical marijuana does not increase use among youth.
Kids at exclusive, ritzy school have vaccination rates one-fourth of public school children.
Doctors respond to task force recommendation for fewer PSA tests here, here and here. Austin Frakt summarizes them.
Almost half of the payments are for state and local governments, according to a report the Government Accountability Office released Monday. Unions also controlled a large share of the funds.
