Paul M. Jones | Health Care 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 Why So Hesitant? 2021-12-09T16:07:59-06:00 The same people who told you ... Brexit would never happen, that Trump would never win, that when he did win it was because of Russian collusion but also because of racism, that you must follow lockdowns while they don’t, that masks don’t ... Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy 2014-09-07T14:09:39-05:00 The evidence that abstinence from alcohol is a cause of heart disease and early death is irrefutable--yet this is almost unmentionable in the United States. Even as health bodies like the CDC and Dietary Guidelines for Americans (prepared by Health a... NYTimes: Low Carb Eaters Lose More Fat, Show Better Health 2014-09-02T19:11:44-05:00 People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major new study shows. ... The new... Potentially "Lethal Blow" For Obamacare: Subsidies Invalid In Most States 2014-07-22T19:07:10-05:00 in what NBC classified as a "potentially lethal blow to Obamacare" a federal appeals court has ruled that the federal government may not subsidize health insurance plans bought by people in states that decided not to set up their own marketplaces und... Birth Control Mandate Waivers For Me, But Not For Thee 2014-07-16T19:35:34-05:00 Some 204 outfits favored by Democrats were granted waivers by the president from ObamaCare, which means their employees do not have the right to employer provided birth control. These include upscale restaurant, nightclubs, and hotels in then-Speaker... Don't Confuse Money Flows With Real Resources 2014-03-20T18:12:55-05:00 While it is true that we spend more than other countries [on medical care] in an accounting sense, we actually use fewer real resources: fewer doctors, fewer nurses, fewer hospital beds, shorter lengths of stay, etc. That means that from an economist... Untangling Obamacare's Web Glitches 2013-10-03T04:37:39-05:00 What the heck could be going on? My friend stated the obvious: “It's clear that they're getting more traffic than they can handle. The question is why they can't handle the traffic they're getting.” Load problems could explain servers hangi... The Obamacare employer mandate delay is another symptom of our crumbling ‘rule of law’ 2013-07-07T14:08:28-05:00 I am not a legal scholar, so I need someone to explain it to me. In what sense do we live under the rule of law if the Congress can pass a bill, the president can sign it, and then the president can unilaterally announce that it is not going to be im... If Business Is Evil For Cutting Hours Due To Obamacare, What About Colleges? 2013-01-21T09:59:41-06:00 When the Affordable Care Act passed in early 2010, many in academia--faculty and students alike--cheered on. But now that its provisions are going into effect, some of these same people are learning firsthand that Obamacare has some nasty side eff... Taubes: Nutrition and Obesity "Research" Is Generally *Not* Science 2013-01-13T23:42:17-06:00 [E]very time in the past that these researchers had claimed that an association observed in their observational trials was a causal relationship, and that causal relationship had then been tested in experiment, the experiment had failed to confirm th...