- Study: Up to 31.6 percent of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments (intended to support hospitals that serve low-income patients) have gone to hospitals that do not care for very many low-income patients.
- “Tripledemic” news stories are just hype.
- California medical school admits it experimented on prisoners in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Hospital donors get VIP treatment and jump the queue when they need medical care. (NYT) Is anyone surprised by this? Is there anything wrong with it?
Author: Pieter Vorster
GOP Tax Cut Paid for Itself
The original Ryan/Brady tax reform bill was the brainchild of Larry Kotlikoff and Alan Auerbach and is described in this Goodman Institute report. Critics at the time said that the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 would produce an irresponsible increase in the federal deficit.
Thursday Links
- The Pasteur Act (apparently not in the Omnibus) would essentially pay for the development of new antibiotics in return for “free” use of subsequently invented drugs.
- Does St John’s Wort have any health benefits?
- Not in the omnibus bill: measures to strengthen the generic drug market. (InsideHealthPolicy: gated)
- US life expectancy down more than two years since 2019.