Is NHS (UK's National Health Service) turning into a wonderland? Magical magnets have been approved to screw the desperate - poor and elderly, usually, the ones who need proper treatment and not some wacko prescription.
The accountants at the Prescription Pricing Authority have decided that the "the magnets will save money on bandages and nurses' time by healing the wounds." I dare say they could save even more money by removing all effective treatments. -David Colquhoun at Improbable Science
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A little more on the topic of ear infections, from Forbes:
In 2014, more than 28,000 people in the U.S. died from an opioid overdose. That same year, more Americans died from drug overdoses than during any other year on record, with the escalating numbers fueled by opioid abuse.
One of the standard conservatarian responses to anyone suggesting government-funded universal health care is to start talking about how universal health care will inevitably lead to faceless, heartless bureaucrats denying or delaying treatment for stupid reasons.
Roy, writing at Shrink Rap, has a post about the
prospect of online access to prescription records in the State of
California. The attorney general is proposing a database of
all prescription records, that could be accessed by doctors and
pharmacists.
They can save even more money by forgoing those expensive metal magnets, since wooden magnets have proved to be just as good.