- Tyler Cowen: “Classical liberals are increasingly religious.” I don’t think this is new. I think it has been true for a long time. But I don’t know why.
- ACO failures: study of Medicare patients with depression or anxiety finds a 24 percent decline in treatment visits and no discernible improvements at twelve months after enrolling in an ACO.
- Syphilis cases in newborns is ten times what it was a decade ago. In 40% of the cases, the mother had no prenatal care.
- Infant mortality rises for the first time in 20 years.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Meditation & Mindfulness: Relief from Anxiety and Stress or a New Age Pseudoscience?
If you like to slow down and clear your mind through a structured mindfulness activity every day, feel free to do so. Just don’t think it will cure your multiple myeloma.
Patients Need to Act More Like Consumers (and Providers More Like Competitors)
A Crisis of Confusion is proving costly for American health care consumers. Dylan Scott of Vox Media wrote about how health care consumers don’t, won’t or can’t navigate the health care system in ways that could save them money. He is correct.
Thursday Links
- A lot of medical and nursing students are planning on doing something other than direct patient care.
- Study: Health care privatization is good for patients.
- Policies established by close referendums tend to stay in effect for many years thereafter. (HT: Tyler)
- Occupational licensing study: Official recognition of out‐of‐state licenses increases employment of licensed occupations without sacrificing service quality.
- A national medical student group called White Coats for Black Lives took the occasion of the murder of more than 1,000 Jews to provide a full-throated expression of solidarity with Palestine.