The concept of healthy living goes back to ancient Greece and then to the Romans. Nowadays healthy living often comes off as preaching about how people should live their lives rather than how they choose to live their lives. An interesting saga of improving life and longevity is by National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner. He began with the study of centenarians, people who reach the age of 100.
Category: Health Reform
Are Humans Becoming More Food Intolerant? Maybe, Maybe Not
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.
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…