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Wednesday Links

Posted on October 18, 2023October 17, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Dental insurance isn’t really insurance – it’s a discount service.

A 20-year-old research paper with lasting relevance asks: Why are people getting fatter? Answer: they are eating too much.

Is there a nursing shortage or is there a shortage of nurses providing care? And what’s the difference?

Obese patients are often excluded from drug trials. Is that a mistake?

After looting CVS, Target and other stores, what do thieves do with the loot? They set up shop on the sidewalk across the street and sell them. DC has made that easier by decriminalizing street vending.

3 thoughts on “Wednesday Links”

  1. John Fembup says:
    October 18, 2023 at 2:36 pm

    I have some quibbles about the Dental Insurance article but it’s essentially correct and the reason I dropped dental insurance 20 years ago.

    Why? With insurance my premium was a a lot more than the cost of regular exams. I was actually self- insuring out-of-pocket expenses above $2,000 per year. There are no high-dollar dental procedures my coverage was protecting me from. It was an easy decision to self-insure expenses below $2,000.

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  3. Devon Herrick says:
    October 24, 2023 at 11:59 am

    About the nursing shortage. I have always maintained that hospitals collude to hold nursing wages down. There are undoubtedly millions of nursing graduates who would work if working conditions were better. The problem for hospitals is that if they raise the marginal cost to attract nurses (hesitant to work) they have to give a raise to all nurses.

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