Category: Interesting Links

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Food Stamp recipients outnumber women who work full-time…

Obama has proposed 442 tax hikes since taking office…

Which chain do you think is more heavily celebrated on the website of the American Cancer Society? CVS, which will stop sales of all tobacco products, or Walgreens, which won’t?

Apr 15, 2014 | 15 comments | by John Goodman

Hits and Misses

Government panel: get rid of CHIP.

Some five million people are bitten by snakes each year. Of those, as many as 94,000 die and another 400,000 have limbs amputated or are permanently disabled as a result.

An argument that parents don’t matter.

Apr 14, 2014 | 15 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Administration does not know if it has legal authority to delay ObamaCare mandates.

New Jersey woman’s ObamaCare insurance turned down by 96 doctors — still no appointment.

What’s more difficult than signing up for an ObamaCare insurance plan? Cancelling one.

Apr 11, 2014 | 15 comments | by John R. Graham

Hits and Misses

Kathleen Sebelius resigns.

Uwe Reinhardt: Is human life priceless?

This doctor doesn’t accept health insurance and for 12 hours a day his waiting room is packed with patients.

Apr 11, 2014 | 15 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Can adian study: Almost one-third of patients never fill the prescriptions for the medicines they are told to take.

Jails house 10 times more mentally ill than state hospitals.

Doctor billed Medicare for $21 million in 2012; investigated by the FBI; makes large donations to Democrats.

Washington Post fact checks TV ad Barrack Obama ran against John McCain and finds that all the scary predictions actually came true — it’s called ObamaCare.

Most of the 4,000 doctors who received at least $1 million from Medicare in 2012 billed mainly for giving patients injections, infusions and other drug treatments.

Apr 10, 2014 | 16 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Why liberal cities are bad for blacks: Some of the most segregated cities in the U.S. are above the Mason-Dixon line, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Detroit.

Flight 370: If nothing else can be learned from this bizarre hunt, one thing has become clear: There’s a ton of trash in the Indian Ocean.

Day care costs more than college in 31 states.

Processing backlog: Hundreds of thousands of consumers who may qualify for new Medicaid coverage aren’t getting it.

Apr 10, 2014 | 16 comments | by John Goodman

Hits and Misses

C ost to clone a dog: $100,000.

More lawlessness: Medicare Advantage plans will get a 0.4% increase in premiums instead of the 1.9% cut the ACA seems to require.

Is Starbuck’s recycling your paper cup? Probably not.

Consumer driven health care: There are about 1,600 walk-in medical clinics across the country and the number is projected to double in the next three years.

Apr 09, 2014 | 18 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Blue Cross: 15% to 20% of enrollees aren’t paying premiums.

EPA tested deadly pollutants on humans.

Long-term antibiotics apparently work for lyme disease patients; but many doctors are afraid to prescribe them.

Apr 07, 2014 | 15 comments | by John Goodman

Hits and Misses

A medical student wants “to do the greatest good for the greatest number.” What kind of doctor should he/she become? Tyler Cowen answers. So does David Henderson.

The health co-ops are failing.

Can teledentistry actually work?

Eli Lilly’s answer to fake drugs: A $110 million bar code system with secret codes.

Apr 07, 2014 | 18 comments | by John Goodman

Hits and Misses

Federal government has seven different definitions of “health information technology“.

More evidence that medical homes don’t work.

A $295 spoon can detect and counter tremors in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

$175 million worth of worker output lost during first two days of college hoops’ “March Madness“.

Apr 03, 2014 | 16 comments | by John R. Graham