Included in Friday Links (November 10) was the title, “Would coverage for gene therapies make employer-based health insurance unaffordable?” That raises an important question: How much should employers (and employees) be required to pay for hyper-expensive therapies very few people need? A related question: should the purpose of employee health coverage be to recruit and retain workers or fund rare disease research and therapies?
Category: Devon Herrick
Meditation & Mindfulness: Relief from Anxiety and Stress or a New Age Pseudoscience?
If you like to slow down and clear your mind through a structured mindfulness activity every day, feel free to do so. Just don’t think it will cure your multiple myeloma.
Patients Need to Act More Like Consumers (and Providers More Like Competitors)
A Crisis of Confusion is proving costly for American health care consumers. Dylan Scott of Vox Media wrote about how health care consumers don’t, won’t or can’t navigate the health care system in ways that could save them money. He is correct.
More Medical Schools Adopt Climate Change Curriculum
What should your doctor have learned in medical school. What should medical schools teach? Physicians I’ve talked to have said medical school is brutal. The amount of knowledge that students need to learn is immense. According to a recent poll up to 25% of medical students are thinking about quitting. One of the biggest stressors is the sheer volume of material that students must master.