Category: Interesting Links
Oct 30, 2009 | 3 comments | by John Goodman
Hits & Misses – 2009/10/27
Donald J. Boudreaux: Insider trading should be legal.
Butchering your own food: “With classmates looking on, Jake hunkered down over a 120-pound castrated pig with a .22-caliber rifle pointed at its skull and…pulled the trigger.”
Oct 27, 2009 | 6 comments | by John Goodman
Hits & Misses #2 – 2009/10/22
The long and the short of it: The shorter you are in America, the more likely your chances to develop coronary heart disease, diabetes or stroke.
Standing between you and a weight loss drug is the FDA: “What the FDA is going to be paranoid about is a non-obese person who wants to drop 5 or 10 pounds in front of a wedding or a reunion.”
Could living near a park be good for your health? Yes, says one study.
New York Times runs positive piece on consumer-driven health care. I believe this is a first.
Oct 22, 2009 | 6 comments | by John Goodman
Hits & Misses #2 – 2009/10/16
Life expectancy in Zimbabwe is now just 43 years. The reason: Robert Mugabe.
Dartmouth Atlas results challenged: “We see better survival rates at the hospitals that spend more.”
The case for not mandating motorcycle helmets: Every death of a helmetless motorcyclist prevents or delays as many as 0.33 deaths among individuals on organ transplant waiting lists. (Hat tip to Marginal Revolution.)
Oct 16, 2009 | 5 comments | by John Goodman
Hits & Misses – 2009/10/16
Is it fair to charge people a premium that reflects the real cost of the insurance they are buying? RWJ finds that question hard to answer. Let’s hope they stay away from other insurance markets.
Mayo unit stops accepting Medicare. Senior access already deteriorating and the health reform bill isn’t even out of committee yet.
Oct 16, 2009 | 9 comments | by John Goodman
