Author: John C. Goodman
The US Role in the International Organ Tourism Market
An international transplant patient can bring in as much as $2 million — far more than a U.S. patient paying through private insurance or a public program like Medicare.
Source: New York Times
How Much Fraud in Obamacare?
Investigators also discovered misuse of Society Security numbers — in one case, a single number was used for 125 policies in 2023 — and identified serious shortcomings in how CMS assesses marketplace fraud.
Source: Washington Post
Monday Links
- The main effect of affirmative action: discrimination against Asians.
- Trump announces in deals with nine companies to cut prices on drugs that treat Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hepatitis B and C, HIV and certain cancers.
- Study: Most psychiatric disorders are not genetically separate diseases. Instead, they share a large amount of the same genetic risk, which clusters into a small number of underlying genetic “families.”
- Why health care needs AI: Since the turn of the century, hospital prices are up 271%; computer software is down 73.3%.
- Why estimates of a declining fertility rate might be wrong.
- A decade ago, about 40 artificial intelligence systems were approved for clinical use. Today, more than 1,200 are FDA-approved.