Hospital offers a 24-hour vending machine for prescription drugs.
Government waste discovered by ABC News (great video).
Hospital drug shortages have cost at least 15 deaths. See previous posts here, here, and here.
Jeb Hensarling and Patty Murray have never met. Now they are co-chairing the super committee.
Social networks provide the patients for research on rare diseases.
Will the Germans take over Britain’s National Health Service hospitals? HT: Tyler
Study that didn’t need to be done: Alcohol dulls brain ‘alarm’ that monitors mistakes.
Is it time to end the war on salt?
Only 13 percent of physicians agree with the AMA’s stance on health reform. 77 percent now say the AMA no longer represents their views.
Consumer Reports reverses course: advises “people to dicker with their doctors.”
Study: High salt + low exercise = Lower IQ
Texas Medicaid spends more on kids’ dental braces than the other 49 states combined.
A couple with dementia sought to die by fasting. No, said the assisted living home.
U.S. doctor practices use up to 21 hours a week dealing with third-party payers.
The new Health Wonk Review is up, aptly themed for Hurricane Irene. Forbes’ Avik Roy hosts the latest storm of health reform debate from the Web’s best health blogs.
The Republican governors have 31 policy proposals to reform Medicaid. The left finds it reasonable (here’s Aaron Carroll and Sarah Kliff/Ezra Klein), so it’s clearly not radical enough.
The first human to live for 1,000 years may already have been born.
Study: trust your gut instincts: Researchers discover first decision is the right one.
Nearly one of every 10 employers to stop offering health coverage to workers once ObamaCare insurance exchanges start in 2014. Another 20% unsure.
One policy change would double the world’s GDP: free immigration. HT: Bryan Caplan
NYC proposal to bar the use of food stamps for sodas to deter obesity denied. Would it have worked anyway?
The Obama Administration has now granted waivers to 1,472 plans with nearly 3.4 million people. It just gave a blanket waiver to any and all firms operating Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs).
80% of members of Congress have never taken a course in business or economics.
What’s being built in the name of 9/11: a staggering $11 billion worth of government-sponsored construction on the 16 acres we now call ground zero — is an example of just about everything wrong with modern government. (Entire Joe Nocera column is worth reading.)
