There will likely be an exodus of physicians in the next few years as older physicians grow weary of the health care bureaucracy and decide it is time to retire. Replacing them will be difficult.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Study: Father’s Heavy Drinking Negatively Affects Wives and Children
Occasionally, a study comes out that makes you wonder how the researchers got it funded. A new study out of La Trobe University was apparently authored by Captain Obvious. The Earthshattering finding? Alcoholism by husbands and fathers negatively affects their wives and children.
Thursday Links
- Oz: States should license pharmacists to prescribe meds. (InsideHealthPolicy)
- Is Italy in better fiscal shape than the US?
- Democratic governors are curtailing Medicaid for illegal Aliens.
- Phillipson and Moore: Slash the red tape and adopt an Operation Warp Speed for all killer diseases.
- Big state electric power costs almost double rates in red states.
Wednesday Links
- Over the past two and one-half decades the federal government has buried taxpayers under a mountain of debt, now approaching $38 trillion. During this time the key problem has been spending, not a lack of tax revenue.
- A good explanation of the latest Nobel Prize in economics.
- More on the Nobel.
- Can social connections improve your physical health?
- Hospitals’ ever expanding revenue: Where is the money going?