WhiteCoat kindly responded to my comment in his original blog post on Tier 4 drug plans. My original comment was:
When insurers are forced by the government to accept any individual into its risk pool without discriminating individual policy holders with risk-adjusted premiums, individuals
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A while back I chronicled some interesting trivia on 7 Famous Medical TV Shows. I admit that many of the famous shows in that post were based on my subjective evaluation; there are several shows, albeit lesser known to me, which absolutely need mentioning, starting with:
1. Ben Casey
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From the New York Times: Co-Payments Soar for Drugs With High Prices
No one knows how many patients are affected, but hundreds of drugs are priced this new way. They are used to treat diseases that may be fairly common, including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, hepatitis
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The Ludwig von Mises Instititute has an article titled The Political Economy of Moral Hazard by Jörg Guido Hülsmann originally printed in the Czech journal Politická ekonomie, and available for download here (PDF).
I have blogged about moral hazard before here and here. The article
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Over the years, there have been dozens of shows which peer into the medical world, ranging in style from comedy to drama to documentary. Let’s go back into time (or to tomorrow’s primetime) to refresh the classics and a few new hits. Maybe you will want to be a physician afterwards.
1. General Hospital

The American Broadcasting Corporation launched this iconic soap opera on April 1st, 1963, the same day that the National Broadcasting Corporation launched its own medical drama “The Doctors”. Set in the fictional town of Port Charles, New York, the show began as a view into the fictional relationships of doctors, nurses, and patients in a hospital, but over the years, the stories grew more numerous and fantastically more convoluted; General Hospital’s hospital is rarely used as a setting these days, and instead the show’s producers favor other aspects of the GH-universe, including the Port Charles’ mob-scene, the business community, and the Quartermaines’ residence. Elizabeth Taylor is noted as being a guest star in a 1981 episode as Helena Cassadine. 45 years and counting, General Hospital is the longest-running drama produced in Hollywood, and there are no signs of stopping.
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Man on truck
The joy of Dengue Fever. I have been fortunate enough to come across this illness, not once, but several
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