- To keep the doctor away, try 4,000 steps a day.
- Medicaid expansion states attracted more than twice as many able-bodied adults as predicted — leading to cost overruns topping $66 billion. (WSJ)
- A toe, foot or leg is cut off by a doctor about 150,000 times a year in America, making the United States a world leader of these amputations.
- Your prospects are better if your surgeon is female.
- Scientists recreated a Pink Floyd song by reading the brain signals of listeners.
- As many as two-thirds of US physicians experience burnout and this decreases the quality of care and increases the average health care costs.
Author: Pieter Vorster
Monday Links
- The food stamp program doubled in size during th pandemic, yet its 42 million recipients have less healthy diets and are more obese than other Americans.
- The typical Medicare beneficiary has access to around 40 Medicare Advantage plans. (WSJ)
- Medicaid in NY: volatile budget swings.
- GOP answer to drug shortages: exempt generics from the 340b discounts until the shortage is over. (gated)
- The case for drinking. HT: David Henderson
Wednesday Links
- Aaron Carroll: there is no scientific reason to avoid artificial sweeteners. But there are good reasons for many people to reduce your intake of sugar.
- House votes today on personal and portable health insurance (funded by an employer) – essentially codifying a Trump executive order.
- The House also will vote to codify a Trump executive order on Association Health Plans that has been stymied by the courts.
- Incentives matter: Lionel Messi could play soccer anywhere, but the lack of a state income tax helped draw him to Florida.
- Why veterans need private doctor alternatives to the VA.
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