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The Healthcare Economist is on hiatus for a week of vacation.  Enjoy these links to tide you over until the next post next week. Income elasticity for hospitals: quantity vs. quality Recessions and the demand for mental health drugs? Do smoking bans increase or decrease fires? Abuse in a hospital? Prescribing drugs not approved by…

Is it too late to save AHRQ? Driving change in workers comp. Orange is the new green. Do brokers increase health insurance cost? Healthcare and the NBA.

The long view on health care. NPs vs. MDs in CA. Average care. The calculus of primary care. Are drug costs declining?

“I was wrong about weed” Health tourism to europe. Is Obamacare increasing the share of employees working part-time? Is war on PEDs futile? 25 best blogs. MLS > Premier League? NCAA’s ideas on fairness.

Does Moore’s law apply to solar? The value of public sector pensions. Democrat support of Obamacare fading? Penalties for part-time workers. The NCAA Cartel. Obamacare and the brain drain of congressional staffers.

Markets in everything: breasts. The samurai physician’s teachings. Even the NHS has regional variation in the quality of care. Obamacare and workers’ comp. China’s museums.

30 Day Readmission Rates. ORYX and Inpatient Quality Measures. Jews and Economics. Higher coinsurance rates decrease adherence. Any progress on hospital EHR adoption?

Map: Newly eligible for health insurance under Obamacare. Workers Comp or Group Health: Who should pay more? Discipline leads to happiness? Is obesity a disease? Social change in one generation.

Extreme Prescribers. MyGovCost. Health Exchanges create two-tiers of insurance? The oocyte cartel. AMA measures burden from health insurers. Reforming Medicare Post-Acute Care?

You are going to the dentist too often. What if physicians worked for free? 60% of Mass. MDs will not meet EMR Mandate Water wars? Excel artist.