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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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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 …

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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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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 …

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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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Focus on Treatment, Not “Stigma” City Journal

WebFocus on Treatment, Not “Stigma”. Why do we accept the disorder and violence stemming from untreated serious mental illness? In 1993, New York senator …

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Review of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt City Journal

WebThe Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Random House, 400 pp., $30). …

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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 …

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Gene Therapies Need Insurance Reform City Journal

WebChris Pope Giving Up on Reform. A second Biden administration would likely have limited ambitions when it comes to health policy. Eye on the News. Mar 29 2024. …

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Let Employees Save on Health Insurance City Journal

WebIn 2023, the average employer-sponsored health-insurance premium for family coverage was $23,968. Could workers get a better deal buying their own plans on …

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Are We Treating Autism Properly

WebAnother survey by an autism-advocacy blog found that of the 341 respondents who had experienced ABA, 72 percent did not support using it to treat …

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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 …

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The Association of American Medical Colleges' Selective Research

WebEarly last month, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)—the organization that oversees the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and cosponsors …

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The Invisible Asylum City Journal

WebThe Invisible Asylum. Olympia, Washington, is a microcosm of the problems created by the emptying of mental hospitals. T he story of American deinstitutionalization …

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

WebAmong progressive policymakers, the prevailing trend is “harm reduction,” a public-health approach that accepts widespread drug use and directs resources toward …

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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 the …

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The WHO’s Power Grab City Journal

WebThe WHO’s Power Grab. The response to Covid was the greatest mistake in the history of the public-health profession, but the officials responsible for it are …

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Misdiagnosing San Francisco's Addiction Crisis City Journal

WebCase in point: San Francisco officials call the city’s drug-addiction crisis a homeless problem. Until recently, the city’s remedy has been to provide addicts with …

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

WebBad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, by Abigail Shrier (Sentinel, 320 pp., $30). Abigail Shrier’s first book, 2020’s Irreversible Damage, launched the …

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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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Review of "The Big Fail" by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean

WebThe Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind, by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean (Portfolio/Penguin, 448 pp., …

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Hysterics for Hamas City Journal

WebThe female voices rose high-pitched and shrill above the crowd: “Five, six, seven, eight, Israel is a terrorist state.”. “We don’t want no Zionists here, say it loud, say …

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