The Department of Health and Human Services, and many other federal agencies, love having experts to advise them. But are the experts always unbiased? Some are, while others are probably not. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is made up of 16 primary care experts, all volunteers who make recommendations about cost-effective preventive medical services and screenings….
Category: Health Insurance
Saturday Links
- Biden touts record Obamacare enrollment. Reasons not mentioned: (1) they are giving away health insurance for free and (2) millions are being kicked out of Medicaid.
- What Malthus got wrong. And why that is still relevant today.
- Jamie Dimon is pessimistic about the economy and the world.
- Why is the VA giving out free medical care to illegal immigrants while 418,000 veterans claims are waiting in the backlog?
Thursday Links
- Yglesias: Government regulations and dental insurance scams combine to hurt the dental patients.
- How sick are we? Nearly half of American adults have hypertension, 40 percent have high cholesterol and more than one-third have pre-diabetes.
- Attitude matters: People who score highly on tests of optimism live up to 15 percent longer than people who are more pessimistic.
- Bob Lawson remembers James Gwartney (1940-2024).
- Making dishwashers great again.
Are Dentists too Aggressive? Or not Aggressive Enough with Dental Care?
I’m scheduled to go to the dentist later this week. Years ago, the Wall Street Journal wrote about a dental divide. I searched for the old link but could not find one. The divide is between aggressive dentists who perform more procedures and conservative dentists who recommend fewer treatments. As I recall, the article said that within the dental industry there is friction between the two factions, with little agreement about what constitutes honest, recommended care and what constitutes excessive treatment. Purportedly, even the American Dental Association does not want to weigh-in and take a stand on the topic. It’s up to each dentist to decide.