- “Essentially, the agency wants to ‘protect’ patients from knowing about their own health” [David Rivkin and Andrew Grossman, USA Today, earlier] FDA-defying workaround lets you get your info even if 23andme’s muzzled [Ron Bailey]
- “Insane Department of HHS plan would criminalize lifesaving bone-marrow donor incentives out of woolly concern with ‘altruism'” [Steven Pinker, Sally Satel/Bloomberg, Michelle Meyer/Bill of Health]
- Affordable Care Act opens up funding stream for alternative medicine. The start of something big? [Kevin Williamson, NRO]
- On underused Gotham hospitals, de Blasio is in hole of his own digging [Bob McManus, City Journal]
- ADA lawsuit against hospital a harbinger of others to come? [Peoria Journal-Star]
- If goal is access to affordable contraception, making Pill available over the counter would seem good first step [Shikha Dalmia/Time, earlier]
- Home-health-aide overtime rules are bad news for seniors hoping to stay out of nursing homes, but AARP can’t shake its scripted role as loyal union ally [More: Free Beacon, from 2011 on AARP brief in state overtime case; earlier here, here, and here]
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“If goal is access to affordable contraception, making Pill available over the counter would seem good first step ”
Although every time this is suggested, doctors come out against it, because something something medicine is complicated.
And everyone keeps telling us that medicine is expensive because of insurance companies, which is sort of like blaming the cost of your sandwich on ATM fees.