Having to opt out to stop receiving sales pitches that I never requested annoys me. Now, some health-care leaders want to use opt-out requirements to improve patients’ decision-making and adherence to medical advice. Instead of making patients who want certain health services to opt in by seeking them, the usual approach in health care, they want to make patients opt out if they don’t want them. They say this would help patients make better choices. A new study hints that this approach might backfire, at least for screening colonoscopy…. Read More→