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Radiation Risks in Perspective

Living next to a nuclear power plant for a year is as…

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Most Accurate and Most Inaccurate Statements of the Day Awards

Ezra Klein wins BOTH AWARDS for statements in a single article about…

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Health Insurance Monopoly

The single most important feature of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is…

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Why Electronic Medical Records Aren’t Being Used

About 20 percent of U.S. hospitals and 30 percent of office-based primary-care…

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More on the Meaning of “Universal Coverage”

Doctors are primary care physicians who accept all or most new Medicaid…

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Do We Want Income Equality?

I can’t think of any single act of government that creates more…

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Government Pays Bonuses for Increasing Medicaid Expenditures

In December, HHS announced the bonuses for 15 states that had made…

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More on the Longevity Project

Cheerful children, alas, turned out to be shorter-lived than their more sober…

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Are Market-Oriented Economists Wrong About Health Care?

Tyler Cowen posted 10 common mistakes of market-oriented economists the other day,…

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How the AMA Has Undermined Primary Care

While, in other developed nations, 70-80 percent of all physicians are generalists…

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