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Category: Health Economics & Costs

Tuesday Links

Posted on October 15, 2024October 15, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • While you are sleeping, your brain is cleansing itself.
  • Five signs of dementia other than memory loss. (NYT)
  • How you are subsidizing the homes of the wealthy on Florida’s  coast: The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which currently has underwritten more than 5 million policies, now issues 95% of all flood policies, and is $20 billion in debt.
  • The Cass Report: “We have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.”  Why is that controversial?
  • Why is there a shortage of IV fluid?
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NYT: One Study 20+ Years Ago Condemned Millions of Women to Needless Suffering

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Devon Herrick

Hormone therapy for post-menopausal women was once one of the most common treatments in America, according to the New York Times. That all changed in 2002 when a major study raised serious health concerns supposedly due to hormone replacement. Many doctors stopped prescribing hormones after the landmark study and many patients are afraid to ask.

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Monday Links

Posted on October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • Doctor fees explained.
  • The many ways Obamacare has failed.
  • From the first launch globally, the median time a new drug became available was 2.7 years for high-income countries, 4.5 years for upper-middle-income countries, 6.9 years for lower-middle-income countries, and 8.0 years for low-income countries.
  • Harris’s home health care plan could cost $400 billion a year.
  • AI’s bedside manner is better than a doctor’s.
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WSJ: Alcohol Abuse is on the Rise Among Women

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Devon Herrick

My late mother told me about a slogan when she was young with women saying, “lips that touch alcohol will never touch mine.” Those days are long gone. Women are drinking more than ever before.

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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

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