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Not-So-Affordable Care City Journal

WEBNot-So-Affordable Care. Obamacare and other government schemes have proved costly and ineffective. In a 2022 book, Seemed Like a Good Idea, health

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Why Does the U.S. Spend So Much on Health Care

WEBAmericans consume so much health care in large part because they need it more. Rates of heart disease and cancer are more than twice as high in the U.S. as in …

Category:  Cancer Go Health

What Does Quality of Evidence Mean

WEBQuality of Evidence. To evaluate the quality of studies on puberty suppression, the authors of the systematic review used a modified version of the Newcastle–Ottawa …

Category:  Health Go Health

New Cochrane Study on Masks and Covid City Journal

WEBMasks make no difference in reducing the spread of Covid, according to an extensive new review by Cochrane—the gold standard for evaluating health …

Category:  Health Go Health

Improving U.S. Health Care With Free-Market Solutions

WEBThe costs of health care have risen steadily over the last five decades, but at Smith’s SCO, with only four exceptions where the cost of procedures decreased, prices …

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A Vision for Mental Health Reform City Journal

WEBA Vision for Mental Health Reform. 10 Blocks podcast. Podcast. Sep 15 2022. Stephen Eide joins Brian Anderson to discuss his new report on the continuum of …

Category:  Health Go Health

Quality-Adjusted Life Years: Useful or Discriminatory

WEBThe controversial quality-adjusted life years (QALY) metric can help deliver better health care—if its scope is limited. The House Energy and Commerce Committee …

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Indiana Leads the Way on Health Care Costs City Journal

WEBIndiana leads the way in tackling health-care costs. The House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce wants to tackle rising health …

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Time to Roll Back Covid-era Medicaid Expansion City Journal

WEBThe three-year accumulation of ineligible Medicaid beneficiaries can now, finally, be ended. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, enacted at the end of …

Category:  Health Go Health

Making Sense of the U.S. Health-Care System City Journal

WEBChris Pope, Allison Schrager Making Sense of the U.S. Health-Care System. Risk Talking podcast. Podcast. Feb 01 2023. Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Pope joins …

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Washington’s Mental-Health Experiment City Journal

WEBWashington’s Mental-Health Experiment. The state repurposes its oldest psychiatric hospitals, but similar reforms in the past have not gone well. W estern State …

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Ignoring Data on Racial Disparities in Health Care City Journal

WEBThe research establishment studying racial disparities in health care has a big problem. It has made a concerted effort to ignore any literature that contradicts the …

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Republicans Are Not Bad for Your Health City Journal

WEBRepublicans Are Not Bad for Your Health. Economists claim that America has a lower life expectancy than other countries because of the GOP. / Eye on the News …

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Censorship and the Public-Health Establishment City Journal

WEBAmerica’s public-health establishment has become a threat to individual liberty. Perhaps symbolically, on July 4 a federal judge in Louisiana enjoined a long list …

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College Students Using Mental-Health Services in Record Numbers

WEBMore than one in three students report having a mental-health disorder. Student use of therapy nationally rose almost 40 percent from 2009 to 2015, while …

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Public Health’s Truth Problem City Journal

WEBJan 19 2022 / Share. Throughout the pandemic, public-health officials have omitted uncomfortable truths, made misleading statements, and advanced demonstrably false …

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The Corruption of Medicine City Journal

WEBThe post–George Floyd racial reckoning has hit the field of medicine like an earthquake. Medical education, medical research, and standards of competence have …

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Institutional Health, Succession, and Responsivity City Journal

WEBRather, institutional health is the result of a self-reinforcing pattern of organizational structure. Like biological health, it indicates a complex system in which …

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The Harm in Vancouver's “Harm Reduction” approach to drug use

WEBPublic-health officials and progressive leaders often cite Vancouver, Canada, as the gold standard of harm reduction. Over the past 30 years, Vancouver has …

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Fight Aging with Drugs

WEBOutlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford (Harmony, 496 pp., $32) We live in a golden age of health nuts, superfood gurus, …

Category:  Food Go Health

Medicine with a “Transgender Bias” City Journal

WEBFenway Community Health Center in Boston, the largest provider of transgender medicine in New England and one of the leading institutions of its kind in …

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Review of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

WEBThe health-care worker had no indication of any mental distress. With the best of intentions, an adult was implying that thoughts of suicide are something children …

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