By Evan Falchuk

Some things you might have missed these last few days, what with the snow and the Superbowl:

1.  The always interesting Hank Stern at Insureblog talked about the first of my three posts on Japan (the other 2 are here and here).

2.  KevinMD used my post about how your doctor’s moods affect the quality of your care to talk about the problem of burn-out among physicians.  He’s written about it before, and it’s important.

3.  I tried to explain why U.S. employers aren’t crazy.  At least they’re not crazy to want to pay for health care themselves, thank you.

4.  Good news at the Wall Street Journal’s Health blog: government-designed, privately-sold, cheap health insurance.  Too good to be true?  Yes, as I point out in a comment there and in more detail here.

5.  This research makes me think oh my God.  Please hurry up and build the technology seen in either Avatar or the Matrix.