- More than half of all Americans take vitamin supplements. (Bloomberg)
- 41 percent of Gen Z and 47 percent of millennials who are engaged or have been married said they entered a prenup.
- The “prescribing cascade”: one drug causes side effects that doctors mistake for a new disease, triggering another prescription that creates its own problems, leaving people trapped in a sea of unnecessary and potentially harmful medications.
- A growing body of quantitative research indicates that some school-based mental health interventions actually create mental health problems.
- Why is the government under Trump investing so much money in so many private companies?
- Hospital expenses per adjusted inpatient day vary widely across states and ownership types, with costs ranging from under $700 to more than $6,000.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
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When the government began the push for electronic health records (EHR) as part of the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009, public and private health care providers were required to demonstrate ‘meaningful use’ by 2014. Perhaps you remember visiting your doctor about this time only to discover he or she was frustrated, face buried in a computer screen desperately trying to find all the pulldown menus necessary to advance to the next page. Your doctor had to type physician notes while listening to you and examining you. Of course, that does not work well and is detrimental to the quality of your physician visit.
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Tuesday Links – 27 January 2026
- California is the first state to join the WHO, after US exit.
- Why the US left the WHO.
- Study: people who eat five or more daily servings of ultra processed foods have an 82% higher risk of developing Crohn’s disease.
- Study: electronic health record issues were a potential contributor to diagnostic errors in about 61 percent of malpractice cases.
- Study: Places that produce more health care spending per capita among the elderly do not produce higher life expectancy. On the margin, there is little or no “health return” to higher medical spending.
- Fraud against government health-care programs is both common and costly.
- Congressional Democrats defend health insurance companies.
- Popcorn is actually a healthy diet choice; so is coffee and a moderate amount of salt.
- Avalere: MFN drug pricing will have no effect on 99% of Medicare beneficiaries.
- Value-based care has increased (rather than decreased) spending for the 11 million enrollees in Medicare ACO programs