My mother told the story about my birth on a few occasions. She went into labor and my father drove her to the hospital 40 miles away. A nurse at the hospital assured my mother her baby wasn’t yet due. My mother explained she was in labor nonetheless. I don’t recall whether she called her doctor or if the hospital called him. How things have changed since I was born. The natural process that’s been occurring in humans for 200,000 to 300,000 years has now become a medical procedure requiring with emergency care.
Category: Health Reform
Thursday Links
- Why is Amazon selling suicide kits?
- The Easterlin Paradox: happiness varies with income across countries and between individuals, but does not seem to vary significantly with a country’s income as it changes over time.
- Cuban life expectancy is exemplary in Latin America; but that was true before the Cuban Revolution; and the gap began to close after the Cuban Revolution. (HT: Tyler)
- More reasons to doubt extreme global warming.
- Does Biden want to end the gig economy?
Biden’s Next Big Headache (and Consumers’): Health Care Inflation
Rising inflation has been in the news lately. About every lawn guy in my far North Texas neighborhood raised his weekly mowing fee about $10 per lawn this spring. Various food items at my local store seemed to have risen in price by 15%, if they’re in stock at all. Even my wife’s Ezekiel Cinnamon & Raisin muffins that used to cost $5.99 were $9.49 the other day at Krogers.
Colonoscopy May Not be as Valuable As Once Thought
I’m overdue for a colonoscopy. The US Preventive Task Force advises Americans to have one every 10 years beginning at age 45. It has long been believed that if Americans followed that advice colon cancer would largely be a thing of the past. Now a European study casts doubt on that theory. “This is a…