- When patients have access to their own electronic medical records, they have questions.
- In 2024, Americans didn’t spend a greater percent of their income on health care than they did in 2009.
- RFK Jr cancels the avian flu vaccine.
- RFK Jr. slams medical journals as “vessels for pharmaceutical propaganda.”
- Federal investments in children as a share of the economy are set to decline by 20 percent compared with spending before the pandemic.
Author: John C. Goodman
Friday Links
Argument: even super AI won’t take all our jobs. Ozempic for everyone? In addition to weight loss and treating diabetes, it appears to help with heart, kidney and liver diseases, sleep apnea, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol addiction and even aging. (WSJ) Hospital lobbyists blocked site neutrality from the reconciliation bill – a measure that would…
Thursday Links
- Since 2020, CMS has allowed MA plans to offer telehealth services as part of their basic benefit structure.
- Peter Orszag: Our federal debt is dangerously high. (NYT)
- Larry Kotlikoff: Our real debt is even higher.
- Review of the MAHA report.
- New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Medicaid: Young family members “can make $37 an hour by sitting home with your Grandma.”
- A flesh-eating parasite is inching its way toward the US.
Wednesday Links
- Among beneficiaries without subsidies, the percent who did not fill a prescription for a specialty drug within 90 days was 30 percent for anticancer drugs, 22 percent for hepatitis C treatments, and more than 50 percent for disease-modifying therapies for either immune system disorders or hypercholesterolemia.
- Why Social Security finances will steadily worsen indefinitely into the future.
- On current trends Africans will make up over 80% of the world’s poor by 2030.
- Some hospitals are still getting hundreds of millions in Covid funding from FEMA. (Statnews)
- The federal government’s new-car fuel economy standards (CAFE) have resulted in thousands of traffic deaths.