Friday Links

Is Obamacare’s requirement that preventive services be provided with no patient cost sharing unconstitutional?

New York Times: Older doctors should be given competency exams. One-third of US doctors are 60 years of age or older.

Have nurse’s license, will travel: The average weekly rate for travel nurses is $3,080 — about $700 less than it was a year ago. 

Since its founding in 1973, the DEA has intercepted a fraction of one percent of illicit drug trades. 

Physicians want to protect their guild from proposals to let nurses do what they are trained and qualified to do.

Cato paper: “Medical decisionmaking is increasingly under the purview of law enforcement. Practitioners and patients alike are often prejudged as criminals.”