A new law in Montana, dubbed Medical Conscience Objection Laws, will provide sweeping protections for medical professionals who do not want to participate in or provide some types of medical care due to conscience.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Wednesday Links
- Age-adjusted deaths from cold are ten times greater than deaths from heat.
- The first Generalist Medical AI system is out.
- Nate Silver on left-wing bias in the media.
- Is there anything wrong with having AI romantic partners? Apparently, yes.
- During the Covid pandemic, some hospital ICUs were overloaded, while neighboring hospitals had excess capacity. Worst victims of the lack of market clearing mechanisms: Medicaid enrollees and Blacks.
Tuesday Links
- George W. Bush’s program to combat AIDS in Africa has saved as many as 25 million lives — more lives than any other US government policy in the 21st century.
- Sunday was the 58th birthday of Medicare and Medicaid. The cost of Medicare has grown from $10 billion in its first year to nearly $750 billion last year. Taxpayers spend nearly $730 billion a year on Medicaid, up from under $1 billion at its inception.
- Chip Kahn and a whole slew of hospital affiliated authors: If value based purchasing doesn’t work, it’s not our fault.
- The cost of medical privacy: The original Privacy Rule from 2000 is 419 pages of dense legalese. This is in addition to revisions to the rule from 2002 (93 pages), 2013 (137 pages), 2014 (27 pages), and 2016 (15 pages).
- Over the last few years, the rate of death from Covid for the unvaccinated has been between 300% and 900% higher than for the vaccinated.
- Mental health problems diminish with income HT: Tyler
- Stress really can cause your hair to fall out. (NYT)
- Some patients are paying as much as $100,000 a year for unproven ways to live longer. (WSJ)
Monday Links
- How exactly do social determinants of health determine health? (Unconvincing to me.)
- There is no big rise in teenage suicide rates in the US. The increase is concentrated in people over 19.
- Is HHS headquarters the ugliest buildering Washington DC?
- Over 37 million Americans have diabetes (including those who are undiagnosed) and nearly 100 million have prediabetes. That’s more than one-third of the country.
- Correcting the record: seniors have a lot more retirement income than is typically reported.
- Correcting another record: The SAT is a strong predictor of college success, period. Even in grad school, where grades are notoriously inflated, entrance exams are strong predictors of success. HT: Tyler
- Studies: Social media is not changing people’s political views.