Last Monday President Trump held a news conference to advise pregnant woman to exercise extreme caution when taking… Tylenol. Yes, that over-the-counter pain reliever, also known by its generic name acetaminophen. The Leader of the Free World apparently had nothing better to do on a Monday than talk about an OTC pain reliever that was first synthesized in 1878 by a French scientist Henri Leroux.
Category: Devon Herrick
Forget Enhanced Subsidies, Allow Affordable Limited Benefit Health Plans
Obamacare plans are a poor value. Enhanced subsidies are expensive. What would work better than enhanced subsidies?
KFF: Why is Having a Baby So Expensive in the United States?
A mother who recently gave birth to premature quadruplets experienced a $4 million hospital bill. That was $1 million per child. Her babies required neonatal ICU for lengths of stay that varied from two months to nearly five months. The mother even quit her job in the sixth month of her pregnancy to qualify for Medicaid because she knew she could not afford the medical bills associated with quadruplets.
An AI Doctor Will See You Now… (right on your computer screen)
A while back my wife saw her doctor for an ongoing health concern. Years later we still wonder why an obvious diagnosis was missed and what could have been done to avoid unnecessary care. Why do I say the diagnosis was obvious? I recently entered a one-sentence description of the problem into Google, and it told me the exact cause and listed a variety of websites discussing treatments.