- UK study: When hospitals merge, patients suffer.
- Only about one-third of Americans think the US health care system has minor or no problems–and that percentage hasn’t varied much in the last 20 years. And that includes the passage and enactment of Obamacare.
- UK ambulances took an average of 1 hour & 32 minutes to respond to heart attacks & strokes last month. 5 X higher than target, double the average in November.
- Study: Even a little alcohol can be harmful to your health.
- A lot of health provisions were stuck in the omnibus spending bill. (NYT)
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- Eight of the 25 major work stoppages involving 1,000 workers in 2022 were initiated by health care workers.
- Of the $586 billion spent on drugs in 2021, more than 30% ($179 billion) was captured by intermediaries such as PBMs.
- Chris Pope: America actually has five health care systems.
- An old essay that’s worth rereading: “How doctors Die.” HT: Richard Hanania.
- What its liked to be a nurse in the British NHS.
- Is there a religious (pre-Christian) argument for Canadian Euthanasia? (Ross Douthat in the NYT)
Monday Links
- Jeffrey Singer and Trevor Burrus on the misguided history of government regulation of addictive drugs.
- “The FBI set up a command post ahead of the 2020 election to send election-related posts to Twitter and other platforms for possible action. A similar group flagged posts on the day of the 2022 midterms…”
- Scott Atlas: Twitter Censorship Contributed to Destructive Pandemic Policies and Is Criminal.
- New documents reveal how the United States government used a secret Twitter portal to censor COVID-19 content that contradicted the government’s narrative.
- A libertarian Medical Oath.
Monday Links
- Balwani and Holmes are off to prison; but medical research has a long history of unethical practices.
- Does ChatGPT have political biases? Yes.
- What conservatives want from Kevin McCarthy if he is to be the Speaker.
- England’s chief medical officer says the nation faces a rising death toll from heart disease and cancer cases – the knock-on effects of dealing with Covid, which saw thousands of routine treatments and appointments delayed.
- Karol Sakora, a prominent British oncologist, warns that “lockdowns and associated choices had an unforgivable impact on cancer patients with an immeasurable amount of suffering as a result.”
- The Incidental Economist discovers Health Care Sharing Ministries. Not mentioned: if a plan is not working, people can always switch to a plan in the (Obamacare) exchanges – which become the ultimate risk pool.