Medicaid
is awful and the first anniversary of ObamaCare is a good time to talk
about reforming
the unaffordable entitlement. We offer our thoughts in a new paper.
Over at the Locker Room blog, Health Policy
Fellow Nicole Fisher and I provide ongoing analysis and interpretation of
policy news. Keep up with our posts and the health care related posts of other
Lockers with the Health Care tag.
Science changes its mind on coconut oil
There are numerous problems
with comparative effectiveness research as promoted. Too often, the results
discount variation among patients: one
paper suggests the potential for higher costs and worse outcomes.
In a more personal way, coconut oil has gone from "Godzilla"
to Whole
Foods staple. Now it is vegetable oil, the "healthy" alternative
that replaced it in movie theaters, that is a pariah because transfats are bad
and saturated plant fats are good.
Will government respond as quickly as the market to new health research
findings? I don’t know, North Carolina is still dealing with "lunatic"
references in state law.
Upcoming health votes and committee hearings
S265
State Health Plan/Appropriations and Transfer
S33
Medical Liability Reforms
TUESDAY
08:30 HHS Appropriations
— 643 LOB. Audio available here
or here
Division of Public Health
10:00 House Health and Human Services — 1228 LB subject to change
H115
Health Benefits Exchange
WEDNESDAY
08:30 HHS Appropriations
— 643 LOB. Audio available here
or here
Division of Child Development and Smart Start
11:00 Senate Health Care — – 544 LOB. Audio available here or here
S346 Exempt Cooking Schools from Food
Regulations
S347 Report Health Care-Associated
Infections
S384 Conforming Changes/Persons
W/Disabilities Act.
S375 Facilitate Statewide Health Info.
Exchange.
THURSDAY
08:30 HHS Appropriations
— 643 LOB. Audio available here
or here
Consolidations
MONDAY, April 4
13:00 Perinatal Health Committee of the Child Fatality Taskforce — 1027/1128
LB
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