Republicans once believed in an individual mandate, while Democrats opposed it. Ezra Klein interviews Mark Pauly.
Pro-mammogram results: Annual tests from age 40 save 71% more lives. Previous, anti-mammogram posts are here, here and here.
One-third of the nation’s physicians are over 65.
Smiles in fact are only the most visible part of an intimate melding between two minds.
For the last 8,000 years, the wine grape has had very little sex.
Chess experts use more of the brain’s right hemisphere.
The crops that the amoebas farm are the bacteria that they prefer to eat.
In Navajo culture, talking about death is thought to bring it about, so it is not discussed.
More evidence that EMRs are not improving the quality of care.
Medicare Chief Actuary: Claims that ObamaCare will reduce medical costs are “false, more than true.”
Another disappointing study result: Pay for Performance doesn’t work.
Insurers respond to charge that 129 million people have pre-existing conditions.
Nearly two-thirds of doctors believe the quality of care will deteriorate over the next five years. What’s wrong with the remaining third? Not paying attention?
Evidence that mandates make a difference, independent of subsidies. (via Austin Frakt)
Bad news for ObamaCare. Pay-for-performance is Massachusetts isn’t working.
More bad news: making preventive care free leads to more utilization. State mandates increased mammograms by 800,000 over 14 years.
What health care rationing will really be like. Very funny video.
Prime Minister: National Health Service is “second rate.” Apparent gaffe.
Very funny explanation of medical loss ratios. (video)
Two more videos on ObamaCare and concierge medicine: Here and here. (HT to Ralph Webber)
Does the health reform bill destroy jobs? 200 economists say yes.
How does the Congressional Budget Office magically convert $1 trillion in new spending into painless deficit reduction? “It’s all about budget gimmicks, deceptive accounting, and implausible assumptions used to create the false impression of fiscal discipline.”
“If the FDA deems saccharin safe enough for coffee, then the EPA should not treat it as hazardous waste.” That’s Barack Obama writing in the Wall Street Journal today.
Fact or PR? On the eve of the debate over repeal of health reform, an HHS report says as many as 129 million people have pre-existing conditions.
