Per the Urban Institute, as of April 2023, there were about 18 million ineligible people enrolled in Medicaid. The approximate annual cost of ineligible enrollees: $100 billion or more.
[That’s about $1,000 for every household in America.]
Author: John C. Goodman
Monday Links
- Why the new food stamp work requirements matter.
- Republicans have been as bad as Democrat’s when it comes to federal regulations.
- How much do you like your job? 9 of 10 workers would give up a quarter of their lifetime earnings to do meaningful work. (WSJ)
- Johns Hopkins study: less than 10% of Texas hospitals ever sued a patient for an unpaid bill. Even in those cases, the hospitals’ recovery was scanty and half the time the patients didn’t even show up at the hearing.
- But here is an exception: A rich nonprofit hospital denies care to patients who don’t pay their bills. (NYT)
- Noah Smith: there is a need for libertarianism after all. HT: Tyler
Saturday Links
- Study: If the IRA drug price controls were in place in 2014, “between 24 and 49 therapies currently available today would most likely not have come to market and therefore not available for patients.” The act will cause patients to lose access to an estimated 40% of new medicines or up to 139 new therapies over the next decade.
- Licensing laws are creating a shortage of dentists, just like they create a shortage of physicians.
- AFP endorses the Pete Sessions health reform bill.
- Study: School lunches no longer lead to more childhood obesity. But is that because the kids are throwing the food away?
Friday Links
- University of North Carolina rejects woke education for medical students.
- Kotlikoff: the debt deal overlooks the real federal debt.
- Reuters exposes wastes of Climate Change funds.
- The health consequences of being a vegan.
- The only effect of greater access to student loans: more money for universities.
- Effect of a public option in Minnesota: losses for providers, but little effect on the number of people with health insurance.