- Is there anything wrong with using AI apps to decide on pre authorization denials for patients?
- Space has a garbage problem: There are 34,260 objects tracked in orbit, and just 25% of them are working satellites.
- Spending on the elderly is baked in – seniors get their benefits no matter what Congress does. But most programs for children require reauthorization – and spending gets stalled by the congressional stop gap funding process.
- A California hospital billed $10.2 billion in gross charges in the last quarter. But 86% of this amount disappeared after discounts to the payers were applied.
- A libertarian is elected president in Argentina. John Fund: “A century ago Argentina was one of the six wealthiest countries in the world. Now it ranks 66th, below Mexico and just above Russia.”
Author: John C. Goodman
Monday Links
- How do PBMs make their money?
- After a woman dies of cancer she posthumously offers to buy up the medical debts of other patients.
- Scientists edit genes to control cholesterol.
- Gene editing can also prevent sickle cell, but Medicaid won’t pay for it. The Biden administration is partly to blame. (WSJ)
- Patients wait 13 hours for free health care.
Friday Links
- How wasteful is traditional Medicare? Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring spending generated $24–$29 in government savings.
- Drug approval times around the world.
- The new Ai Pin sounds intriguing. But what will it do for health care?
- Who needs a doctor’s office, if you can get care from a kiosk in a shopping mall?
Thursday Links
- California charges taxpayers twice as much as Florida and delivers worse services.
- The true cost of charging an EV is equivalent to $17.33-per-gallon gasoline — but the EV owner pays less than 7% of that.
- Alvin Hanson: “world population will soon fall fast, and then unless we achieve full AGI or end aging by then, our total world economic capacity will also fall, with scale economies and innovation rates both falling roughly in proportion.”
- How to avoid high drug costs for patients: Let government buy the patents and put them in the public domain.
- Only 1 percent of Americans are both uninsured and lack A opportunity to enroll in subsidized coverage. This entire Health Affairs piece by Brian Blase is recommended.