Hits & Misses – 2008/12/03
Is Your Kid the Next Michael Phelps? For $149, you can have him tested for ACTN3, the gene that’s associated with athletic prowess. [link] Suggestion: this test makes more sense at the in vitro stage.
Cyberchondria. The problem: “self-diagnosis by search engine frequently leads Web searchers to conclude the worst about what ails them.” [link]
Your Texas-OU Football Tickets Could be Confiscated. Here’s one proposal for enforcing a health insurance mandate in Sooner land. [link] Hat tip to Greg Scandlen.
Jeb Bush on Florida’s Medicaid Reforms. “Under old Medicaid, only half of children received annual wellness check-ups and just 16 percent went to the dentist for preventive dental care. Only 4 percent of women received mammograms compared with 42 percent of women with no insurance at all.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57jhWyFLD5U
“T-E-X-A-S Fight!”
Hope Jeb Bush runs for the Senate. We need him there.
Thanks for the memories evoked by the Texas band. We were clearly robbed this year by the BSC computer.
Hot new item: The BCS has reviewed World War II and declared Germany the winner.
Full story here.