Weekly Standard: senators who voted against the debt deal will be ineligible to serve on the super committee that will reform entitlements. That would preclude Coburn, DeMint, Hatch, Rand Paul.
Hospitalist care costs Medicare an extra billion dollars a year: study.
Because of ObamaCare, citizens of 17 states do not have access to child-only health insurance.
Diets do not work because starved brain cells eat themselves, prompting hunger signals: new study.
ObamaCare: Women to get free condoms, if prescribed by a doctor. What about men? I’m not sure. If not, there is arbitrage opportunity.
Federal examiners have rejected patents for genetic screening tests because the applicants did not test for differences by race, including “black,” “white,” “Asian” and “Hispanic.” Of more than 3 million patents over the past 20 years, only 37 included any reference to race.
Why we need to raise the debt ceiling – in song.
The U.S. Issues Nearly 60 Percent Of the world’s AAA-Rated Sovereign Debt.
Could your iPhone become an early detector of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, etc? David Friedman says yes.
Almost half of insurance customers would be willing to pay more for health insurance that caters to their needs. But standardized, non-individualized service is what the Obama Care reforms are all about.
Young doctors who graduated from medical school last year had an average debt of $158,000. Almost a third of students owed more than $200,000.
The federal government wasted almost $48 billion in improper payments in Medicare last year. That’s almost $500 for every household in America.
The more masculine the male, the more likely he is to avoid preventive care. Ditto for higher socioeconomic status.
Geithner: “We Write 80 Million Checks A Month”
Should Jared Lee Loughner be forced to take medication that would make him competent to stand trial for the Tucson shooting rampage? A judge says yes.
AARP: more than 40 million Americans caring for an elderly or disabled loved one. The value of their work is $450 billion a year.
Ohio Medicaid officials advise a pair posing as wealthy Russian drug smugglers to lie on their Medicaid applications to get benefits. Another official says she lets illegal aliens get Medicaid benefits.
Study: chronic pain afflicts 116 million Americans.
There are 8,700 pages of rules and Federal Register notices related to ObamaCare. HT: Chris Jacobs.
I’m not sure I believe this: Alzheimer’s preventable more than half of the time, suggests UCSF study.
Is food a drug? It is according to the “food addiction hypothesis.”
What’s wrong with President Obama’s approach to health and education: the God complex. Great video presentation by Tim Harford at TED (HT: Tyler)
The Duchess of Windsor was wrong: You can be too thin.
Does physician income increase from treating more complex patients? In Denmark, the answer is no. It’s probably no here as well. HT: Jason Shafrin
Size matters: The GDP maximizing penile length is around 13 centimeters. (HT: Greg Mankiw)
Rural areas have 25% of the people but only 15% of the doctors. Life expectancy is one year shorter.
A chilling discovery: after cardiac arrest the body is quickly cooled after the heartbeat restored, and survived to be discharged from the hospital—92% of them with most or all of their cognitive function intact.
I hope they didn’t spend very much money on this study. Conclusion: Low health literacy is associated with poorer health outcomes and poorer use of health care services. (HT: Morning Consult)
