An EMR Update, a High-Risk Pool, and a Maze
Maine’s high risk pool has only 14 people in it. HT to Yglesias
Dodd-Frank regulation maze. (neat graphic) (HT to David Henderson)
Category: Interesting Links
Jun 28, 2011 | 5 comments | by John Goodman
The Big Flush, Credit Ratings and Medicine, and Other News Items
City drains 8 million gallons of treated drinking water worth $28,000 after man relieves himself at reservoir. Full piece worth reading.
The company that gives you a credit rating can also rate the probability you will take your medicine. Risk score is on a scale of 0 to 500.
Freedom and personal autonomy are more important to people’s well-being than money. Who is John Galt?
Greater use of over-the-counter medicines could eliminate more than 26 million doctors’ visits every year, for annual savings of more than $5 billion. See obstacles in Obama Care legislation here.
Up to 3 million more people could qualify for Medicaid in 2014 as a result of Obama Care. A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still qualify.
Jun 27, 2011 | 9 comments | by John Goodman
More Pinocchio Awards, Car Insurance for Fido, and Other News Items
Washington Post gives AARP four Pinocchios. Organization misleads the public on budget choices and its own finances.
Car insurance for pets: Covers vet expenses related to auto accidents.
How to control health care costs: Better TV programs. (HT to Tyler Cowen)
Jun 22, 2011 | 7 comments | by John Goodman
Getting Things Exactly Backwards
Matt Yglesias: Texas has created the most jobs because Texans are building the most houses.
Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll: Unethical federal medical experiments is a major reason we need government control of medical care.
Jun 21, 2011 | 12 comments | by John Goodman
A New Market for Austrian Real Estate, and Other News Items
Markets in everything: Austria halts plan to sell mountain peaks.
Robin Hanson: Bring back the lash. It’s kinder than prison and a lot less expensive.
When all else fails, there’s always coercion: pushing the envelope in mental health care.
Doug Holtz-Eakin explains why employers are going to drop their health insurance plans. (video) See editorial as well.
Jun 20, 2011 | 4 comments | by John Goodman
Internet Scandals Costly to Hide, and Other Items
Burying the dirt: Costs could easily reach $10,000 for a prominent person who wanted to make a scandal harder to discover through Internet searches.
Update On Male Sperm Count: No Decline
How to qualify for in-state tuition: Buy a cheap plot of land.
Surgery is getting safer: 2,000 fewer deaths per year.
Patient power works: Better information and the ability to self-manage care cuts readmissions by 20%.
Did you know there are in-network and out-of-network ambulances?
Jun 15, 2011 | 8 comments | by John Goodman
ObamaCare and Conservative Think Tanks, Harassment Wages, and Other News Items
Harvard professor: All the key Obama Care ideas came from conservative think tanks.
Paying to Harass: The … wage difference between a job with zero sexual harassment risk and a job with the mean sexual harassment risk is … about 25 cents per hour for women, and … about 50 cents per hour for men.
A top guard dog can cost $230,000. They don’t bring family problems to the workplace and the “dog, unlike a bodyguard, can’t be bought off.”
Joint Commission endorses indentured servitude: Medical students shouldn’t be paid for patient care.
Jun 14, 2011 | 7 comments | by John Goodman
And the Pinocchio Awards Go To…
Washington Post fact checker gives three Pinocchios each to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) for comments that mischaracterized GOP plans for Medicare.
Benefits of a good night’s sleep include improvements in concentration, short-term memory, productivity, mood, sensitivity to pain and immune function; plus you’ll look more attractive and be less likely to be fat.
A major Massachusetts effort to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care has failed. The reason: researchers could detect no signs of racial or ethnic disparities.
WHO: 1 billion people are disabled worldwide. But is this a meaningful statistic?
Jun 13, 2011 | 4 comments | by John Goodman
