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.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Saturday Links
- 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.
Thursday Links
- 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)