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Saturday Links

Posted on March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Did you know that commercial airlines have to obey a speed limit?
  • Digital therapies that sought FDA approval are expensive and in a regulatory morass. Is there a non-FDA approach that is possible?
  • How worried should we be over a drug resistant fungus?
  • Views on AI’s risk to humanity.
  • Scott Sumner’s take: the worry is not that an intelligent AI will destroy the world. It’s that a depressed person will use AI to destroy the world.
  • A different view of the Waco tragedy – one more sympathetic to the Branch Davidians.
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Friday Links

Posted on March 24, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • UK to speed up drug approval process. Needed: US acceptance of UK approvals in this country.
  • GPT-4 passes the medical exam and then some.
  • Why aren’t there any cost/benefit studies on bicycle lanes?
  • Federal spending is up 40% since 2019. What are the drivers? They are not Social Security, Medicare or Defense.
  • What have we learned after 13 years of Obamacare? If you make health insurance almost free, a lot of people will sign up. If you charge anywhere near the real cost, the market will spin into a death spiral.
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U.S. Health Care System Causes Patient Burnout (and Doctors Too)

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Devon Herrick

Time Magazine discovered that seeing the doctor can be a real pain in the caboose. You aren’t feeling well so you call your doctor’s office. They tell you the next available appointment slot is several weeks away. You wait three weeks and finally present at the doctors’ office, where you wait in a “waiting room” while filling out a mountain of paperwork your doctor should already have. You are led to an exam room where you wait some more. You finally see your physician, whose face is buried in a computer screen. Ten minutes later you’re summarily dismissed and told to get lab work that has been ordered for you. A month later you get the bills (plural). Your appointment lasted only 10 minutes, but your budget will feel the sting for weeks to come. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

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Feds Want to Make School Kids Eat Healthy Food or Go Hungry

Posted on March 18, 2023 by Devon Herrick

The Feds are coming for kids chocolate milk. Also, other school menu items that school kids will actually eat. Teachers, parents, school cafeteria cooks, school nutritionists and kids are in an uproar over a policy decision so dire that it might cause school kids to go hungry and thirsty.

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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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