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Obesity Explained

Since 1960, American adults have, on average, gained 28 pounds. That’s the…

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Medical Device Tax Costs 1,000 Jobs

In a cost cutting move, medical device-maker Stryker Corporation recently announced plans…

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Wash Your Hands? The Video is Watching

Those L.E.D. displays are very demanding — health care workers must clean…

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Japan (Of All Places) Has a Fat Tax

This is by way of Robin Hanson, who provides further commentary: The…

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Employer Health Insurance Premiums: A Stunning Graphic from Aaron Carroll

He adds this observation: He adds this observation: By 2010, more than…

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There is No Such Thing as an “Unbundled” Medical Bill

Have you noticed that quite a few of my Health Alerts are…

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Insurance Reform Goes Crazy

While the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) was rolling out a…

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How Much is in the Genes?

Scott Sumner writes: In “Babies by Design,” Ronald Green claims: Scott Sumner…

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Ripping Off Medicare

If this were a novel, it would require too much suspension of…

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Is Super Committee Failure a Good Thing?

By Wednesday, the so-called “Super Committee,” a bipartisan group of legislators, is…

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