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Category: Health Economics & Costs

Bogus Research is Very Costly

Posted on August 31, 2024 by Devon Herrick

Publishing one’s findings from research allows others to test the theories and build on them in future research. This collaborative approach often roots out bogus findings, but sometimes safeguards fail, and researchers are led down the wrong path.

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Saturday Links

Posted on August 31, 2024August 30, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • What the classical thinkers thought about mental health.
  • More than 300 hospitals are deploying or preparing to dispatch paramedics, nurse practitioners and other medical staff to treat patients at home instead of in hospital settings, a service widely referred to as hospital at home. They get paid the same hospital-stay rate.  (WSJ)
  • George Halvorson calls MedPac report “fake news.”
  • More on diet and dementia. Study: an anti-inflammatory diet reduced the risk of developing dementia by 31 percent.
  • 450 agents and brokers suspended for enrolling and switching people in exchange plans without their consent.
  • Is RFK Jr right? Is a surge in chronic diseases, cancer, neurodevelopmental disorders, metabolic syndrome, and Alzheimer’s disease caused by Big Sugar, Big Ag, Big Pharma, and the cabal of government sycophants who do the bidding of their corporate sugar daddies?
  • “Social capital” for individuals increases with market income and decreases with government transfer payments.
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Thursday Links

Posted on August 29, 2024August 28, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • How can it be a crime for a consulting firm to help a drug company promote its product to customers?
  • Members of Congress consistently beat the market on stock trades.
  • Eli Lilly will allow self-pay patients to purchase (direct-to-consumer) the weight-loss drug Zepbound for less than half the list price.
  • 10 states have passed new laws this year aimed at reducing the growing burden of prior authorization requirement.
  • Opportunities for Democrats to learn about public policy while they were in Chicago: the city has the highest homicide rate in the country and only 21% of eight graders are proficient in reading. But did they really learn anything? (WSJ)
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Wednesday Links

Posted on August 28, 2024August 28, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • David Rose: “It took only 260 days to go from a national debt of $34 to $35 trillion a few weeks ago.”
  • What’s wrong with medical schools: the main skill being taught is the recognition and association of buzzwords.
  • Advocates for child gender transition are relying on flawed research.
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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.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

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