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Wednesday Links
“We estimate the costs of lockdowns were at least 10 times higher than the public health benefits. Fewer than 10.000 lives were saved but hundreds of thousands of lives were lost, while the economic...
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Should Patient Assistance Programs Count Towards Your Deductible (should they...
Demand curves are downward sloping. There I said it! It’s apparently controversial to many public health advocates and Members of Congress. All the while, supply curves slope upward. If you don’t know...
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Thursday Links
Biden Budget: more spending on the elderly: crumbs for the children. (Kids don’t vote.) 17,000 families in Illinois alone have lost homes to Medicaid recovery since 2021. (NYT) The ACCESS Act allows...
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Health Misinformation Run Amok on Social Media
In the 2020 presidential election Trump supporters were accused of spreading misinformation on social media. Or was it Russian intelligence services? I don’t even recall what that misinformation was or...
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Saturday Links
The U.S. is no longer among the top 20 happiest countries. Saving lives with pig kidneys. Why is fetal tissue research so controversial? Liberating the pharmacists. Highest drug price ever: $4.25...
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Monday Links
More young people are getting cancer. FDA gives up in its battle against ivermectin. Adultery is a crime in New York. (And you don’t get a jury trial.) US life expectancy is rising again. HT: Tyler....
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Facility Fees: The New Surprise Medical Bill
The Wall Street Journal reports that facility fees are becoming increasingly prevalent in the U.S. health care system. In some cases, a facility fee for using a physician employed by a hospital nearly...
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Tuesday Links
Why your EV is mostly made in China even if it is produced in the U.S. NYT finally admits that Covid school closures were harmful. Primary care costs less in Medicare Advantage. Research has linked...
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Is Universal Dental Coverage the Next Obamacare Expansion?
Public health advocates have long considered dental care a neglected area of medicine, with dentistry in a silo of its own. Obamacare was intended to provide universal health coverage and boost access...
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Wednesday Links – 27 March 2024
Contrary to the AMA and the CDC, there is no maternal mortality crisis. The authors found that the maternal mortality rate remained essentially flat between 1999 and 2002 (10.2 per 100,000 live...
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WSJ: Why is it Such a Pain to see a Doctor?
I haven’t been to the doctor in several years because it’s such a hassle. All that time I’ve had health insurance that I have not used. The reason is because my old doctor retired (as did the previous...
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Thursday Links
Obamacare is making health insurance companies rich. Aaron Carroll reviews health care systems around the world in 10 minutes. Pretty good on the market-based systems in Switzerland and Singapore and...
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Friday Links
California had the worst job growth of any state. How Medicare pays providers: for the fiscal year that began on October 1, the new rule for hospital inpatient care is just short of 800 pages, with...
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Saturday Links
How an (apparently) serious study of a vegan diet became fodder for a blatant propaganda film. Medicaid’s claim denials are higher than in Medicare or commercial insurance. GAO: Improper payments in...
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Medicare to Cover Some Costly Weight-Loss Drugs (that’s both good and bad)
The first Medicare health plans announced they will cover the weight-loss drug, Wegovy for certain patients with heart disease. By law, Medicare is not allowed to cover drugs solely for weight loss....
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Monday Links
“We find that one-quarter of food-insecure households fall within the top three quintiles of the income distribution and that food-insecure households spend about as much as food-secure households do...
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Tuesday Links
Food stamp households spend a disproportionate share of their food budget on unhealthy items, such as sugary beverages and prepared desserts. And it’s worse than other low-income households who don’t...
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Wednesday Links
Cancer phobia: In 2017, 21.3 million American women had cancer screening tests even though they were outside the age ranges for recommended screening. 10.1 million men outside the recommended age...
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Bad Deal: Hospitals Discover Concierge Medicine
I just read about a troubling trend: Hospital-owned concierge medical practices. This is where hospitals establish a concierge practice for the purpose of attracting a few hundred wealthy members (I...
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Thursday Links
The latest on Fentanyl deaths. “Using published data from the Netherlands and Belgium, where medically assisted death is legal, we estimated that…Medical assistance in dying could reduce annual health...
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