- “Many older people are one medical emergency away from a court-appointed guardian taking control of their lives.”
- The hypothalamus, a cone shaped part of the human brain no bigger than an almond, affects whether we feel hungry and helps control our metabolism. (NYT)
- Kansas and Virginia Medicaid programs paid MCOs for beneficiaries who were dead. (InsideHealthPolicy paywall)
- Solution to rural health care: telemedicine. But you need an internet connection.
Author: John C. Goodman
Monday Links
- The power to define poverty is the power to spend money – a lot of money.
- Mark Pauly questions the wisdom of the GOP’s Medicare reforms requiring price transparency and site neutral payments.
- Survey: Patients find the health care system confusing. They needed a survey to know that?
- Why haven’t we made more progress with personalized (gene-based) medicine?
- “[W]e argue that mink, more so than any other farmed species, pose a risk for the emergence of future disease outbreaks and the evolution of future pandemics.”
Saturday Links
- Biden’s executive order on AI: tons of paper work but no substantive regulations so far.
- A devastating critique of Biden’s executive order.
- What it’s like to be in a clinical trial. HT: Tyler
- Anesthesia may have unhealthy side effects for older patients.
- Over the last century, global suicide rates have been in decline, but in all five Anglosphere nations, Gen Z girls and young women had the highest rates of suicide of any recent generation.. HT: Arnold Kling
Friday Links
- Even moderate drinking can interfere with your sex life.(NYT)
- Medicare is spending $800 million a year on stents that are unnecessary and put patients at risk of complications like stroke, heart attack and death.
- Yglesias takes a critical look at the idea that non-pharmaceutical Covid interventions didn’t work.
- Scott Atlas: What to do in the next pandemic.
- Trump’s plan to bring back mental institutions for the homeless is serious.
- Why is the MSM ignoring 400 American “hostages” in Gaza?