Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - How to Cure Health Care
HEALTH CARE: How to Cure Health Care By Milton Friedman The United States spends a mind-boggling percentage of its GDP on a health care system that virtually everyone agrees is a disaster. Is there any way out of this mess? There is—and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman has found it. Since the end of World War II, the provision of medical care in the United States and other advanced countries has
Greg Mankiw's Blog: Can better prevention save healthcare costs?
In the debate over healthcare reform, another claim one often hears is that better prevention will save us money. I have noted previously how "schlocky" this argument is. Over the weekend, a doctor writing in the Wall Street Journal puts the point as follows: Prevention of a disease, we all assume, should save us money, right? An ounce of prevention . . . ? Alas, If only such aphorisms were true w
Google, Helped by I.B.M., Is Moving Again in Health
A joint Google-I.B.M. announcement on Wednesday night about software to link medical devices to Google’s personal health records, on its face, isn’t much of an announcement. It is a directional declaration of intent by two brand-name companies. But notably lacking, it seems, is a list of device makers, with amen quotes, hailing the software as the foundational technology that will help jump-start
Amazon Starts Renting Out the Human Genome
By Ashlee Vance December 4, 2008 1:52 pm December 4, 2008 1:52 pm Forget books, MP3 players or vacuums. Amazon.com wants to offer you a copy of the human genome this holiday season. Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has started offering access to large collections of data. Business customers and scientists can take the information, which ranges from census databases to three-dimensi
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The Keating Memorial Self Research Group Would you like to get help with your self-research project from an active, experienced group of peers? You’re invited to join the Keating Memorial Self Research group. We meet every Thursday at 10am Pacific time. You can find the agenda, notes & links in the full post. New Show&Tell Event: Tracking Blood Glucose Please join us for an hour of short "QS Show&
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