The Congressional health care reform boondoggle, otherwise known as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" expanded government funded health care to about 32 million Americans but other than some tepid insurance restrictions, basically screwed the rest of us. How is the new reform law doing at 90 days?
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The source of that annoying insect-like buzz heard at world cup matches.
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Is 300 pixels per inch when viewed at 12 inches the limit of resolution for the human eye? Has anyone checked Steve Job's math?
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Tony Stark developed palladium toxicity that could only be treated with lithium dioxide and the creation of a new element.
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The current health care system is doing a good job of driving away primary care providers by fixing it so that the harder they work, the less they make.
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Even malpractice litigation that is without merit and is aborted in the early litigation process incurs significant legal costs that are ultimately passed on to the health care system at large.
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In fact, it's likely to make things worse.
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The study of motivation in economic rewards models provides us a framework by which to look at how greed and the drive to maximize profit leads to more expensive and poorer quality health care.
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There have been concerns about long term acid suppressive therapy. But until recently there has not been much hard data on the risks. That has now changed.
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This is the opposite of the anti-MMR vaccine crowd. Not the least of which is because it is plausible.
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