- Are therapists becoming social justice warriors?
- Some NY lawmakers want to make organ transplants available to illegal immigrants, while citizens stay on waiting lists. (NYT)
- Illinois offers free health care to some illegal immigrants. Spending already balloons to $1.1 billion – five times the initial projection.
- Mass bill: prisoners would get reduced sentences for donating their organs or bone marrow to other patients.
Author: John C. Goodman
Saturday Links
- Ross Douthat: the case against marijuana.
- Evidence that corporate ownership improves healthcare outcomes in a setting where patients have access to service pricing and quality information – the market for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).
- Everything you want to know about when gays can donate blood.
- The new mammogram recommendations can potentially lead to a lot of unnecessary, and potentially harmful, care.
- The downside of privacy regulations: As of November 2021, at least 70% of healthcare providers still exchange medical information by fax because historically there has been no option to send EMRs using modern internet services.
- Why more regulation leads to more monopoly power.
Friday Links
- New England Journal of Medicine article praises the separation of medical students by race while calling for the establishment of white-only affinity groups whose members should be “held accountable.”
- New York City Council: Employers can’t refuse to hire someone because they are fat.
- Austin City Council: Employers can no longer object to employee hair styles.
- Why are state regulations stricter on Children’s tattoos than they are on children sex changes? (WSJ)
- Drug shortages are nearing an all-time high — leading to rationing. (NYT)
- Half the people in New York City cannot afford to live there: necessary take-home pay: $100K. (NYT)
Thursday Links
- The AMA’s Advancing Health Equity guide is a joke. But after the laughter dies, it is also very sad.
- British Columbia to send thousands of Canadian cancer patients to Washington state for treatment.
- Paragon: Medicare’s venture into “value based care” has done little except add administrative burden and a set of quality metrics that are easily gamed and don’t translate into better or more efficient care.
- Trump’s executive order allowing employers to fund individually owned health insurance is taking hold.