- Study: Up to 31.6 percent of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments (intended to support hospitals that serve low-income patients) have gone to hospitals that do not care for very many low-income patients.
- “Tripledemic” news stories are just hype.
- California medical school admits it experimented on prisoners in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Hospital donors get VIP treatment and jump the queue when they need medical care. (NYT) Is anyone surprised by this? Is there anything wrong with it?
Category: Friday Links
Ask Your Doctor Four Questions to Avoid Unnecessary Care
I went to a urologist a couple years ago. He examined me and told me he was 85% sure what I had was not serious and would resolve on its own. However, if I wanted to be 100% sure, there was an in-office test ($450) and an MRI ($350) that he could order for me. I got the feeling he was probably really 95% sure I was fine. The urologist likely offered additional tests out of defensive medicine and the fact that some patients desire more care than others. I was cash pay so I opted out of it.
Friday Links
- As many as 250,000 people die every year because they are misdiagnosed in the emergency room, with doctors failing to identify serious medical conditions like stroke, sepsis and pneumonia.
- Against a carbon tax.
- Can entrepreneurs solve the problem of hospital price transparency?
- Can you raise a family on one income?
- Why private entrepreneurs are sometimes better than public health bureaucracies.
Friday Links
- How the FDA is causing more RSV in deaths in children: “Smart Socks had been on the market for five years, boasted a 90 percent accuracy rating according to peer-reviewed research, and helped over 600,000 parents care for their children….”
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s unholy involvement in the Covid wars.
- Do we need hate crime legislation to protect Anthony Fauci and others from Sen. Rand Paul and other critics?
- The number of requests for abortion pills doubled each month, following the fall of Roe. (NYT)
- 1 in 8 deaths among nonelderly adults due to excessive alcohol use.
- More on the difficulty of CDC reform.