It’s that time of year again when our alarm clocks magically spring forward depriving us of an hour of sleep every night until November 3rd. Yes, Daylight Savings Time begins on March 10, 2024. The following vivid, flowery description is from the New York Times: Daffodils are blooming, temperatures are rising, days are lengthening — all…
Saturday Links
- The world is making better progress at reducing poverty than previously thought.
- David Henderson: “If new drugs can make it in America, they are developed. If they can’t, they aren’t.”
- Study: early risers are happier and healthier.
- Over half of recent college graduates are underemployed.
- Are you better Off? Most Americans are consuming more today (in real terms ) than they consumed in 2019 – before the pandemic.
More Physicians Messaging Patients by Email (and Billing for it)
Probably around 50 years after telephones made their arrived in doctors’ offices physicians stopped using them to communicate with patients. The reason was because health insurance enrollment was growing and third-party payers were not willing to reimburse for phone consultations, while few doctors wanted to work for free. That has been changing over the past few years (the former, not the latter).