Millions of Americans live in areas without a readily available source of medical care that also lack Internet coverage with sufficient bandwidth to make telemedicine feasible. These areas, which tend to be poor and rural, face other obstacles that render residents sicker than average.
Category: Medical Tourism
Buyer Beware: Some Dentists Profit by Replacing Healthy Teeth with Expensive Implants
Most dentists advise that implants are a last resort when a tooth cannot be saved due to infection. Neither are implants maintenance free. Real human teeth are always better than metal posts tied to a fake tooth. It’s like other areas of life, be skeptical if it sounds too good to be true and get second opinions before agreeing to expensive procedures.
Saturday Links
- Dr. Marty Makary: The best way to lower drug costs in the United States are to stop taking drugs we don’t need.
- The Longshoreman’s union negotiator makes nearly $900,000 dollars a year and owned a 76-foot yacht, and the modal longshoreman makes north of $150,000 a year. HT: Maxwell Tabarrok.
- After ten years, Bob Graboyes thoughts on health care system are highly relevant today.
- Who has it easier in the USA today? While 68% of Democrats believe men have the advantage, only 32% of Republicans agree.
- What quality ratings look like in the Medicare Advantage program. There are no quality measurements for traditional Medicare.
- What happens when private equity takes over the emergency room. (a negative opinion)
- Why telemedicine needs to cross state lines.
- Stem cell research was used to cure Type One diabetes.
Travel Spreads Disease, but Only if the Mode is Fast or Passengers Numerous
Between speaking engagements, work travel and vacations I was probably on a plane more than a dozen times a year. Over the years I noticed that I was far more likely to come down with a cold or the flu a few days after a flight than times when I had not traveled. One time I spoke on Obamacare for the Denver Federalist Society with plans to stay over and ski Arapahoe Basin. Two days later I had a severe cold. I could have been the unwitting vector who helped spread a virus from far flung places to Dallas.