A recent advice column in Slate was about a woman who liked to plan dinner parties but her friend had an ever-changing list of dietary requirements. Having to accommodate her friend’s fad diets was killing the fun of throwing parties.
Category: Health Reform
Saturday Links
- Patience is correlated with more success in school.
- “Aspirations cannot become law.” Sen. Bill Cassidy on Bernie Sanders’ latest health care proposal.
- Peter Nelson: How to make price transparency better.
- Is a female takeover of elite occupations taking place?
- Penn Wharton model: The federal government’s unfunded liability is $244.8 billion.
Hospital Online Price Estimators Don’t Match Phone Quotes
Hospitals make it notoriously difficult to know the price prior to a service. Prices are hard to obtain and often meaningless when disclosed. Indeed, there isn’t one price but many prices depending upon who the payer is. There is a different price for BlueCross, Aetna, Cigna and most other health plans. There is the chargemaster…
Friday Links
- Antibiotic resistance might cause up to 10 million death per year by 2050. (NYT)
- Is global warming causing a spike in poison ivy?
- Survey: 1 in 3 U.S. adults are interested in trying psychedelics like MDMA, known as ecstasy, or psilocybin, the naturally occurring compound in “magic mushrooms,” for their mental health.
- H.R.5608 would allow individuals to elect to receive contributions to a health savings account in lieu of reduced cost-sharing under health insurance obtained through a health insurance Exchange.
- Wisdom > From Larry Summers.
- Alex Tabarrok: drug companies need to make more money, not less.