Friday Links

If Medicaid paid doctors as much as private insurers pay that would reduce more than half of differences in access to care among adults and would eliminate such disparities entirely among children.

Thinkers tell Health Affairs how we should reform the health care system: Mark McClellan, Bill Frist, Don Berwick, etc. None advocate liberating the marketplace.

The long reach of DEI: about a quarter of the American workforce is employed by a business classified as a “government contractor.”

Why there is so much health care rationing in Canada: the US  has almost half again as many doctors per capita.

Larry Ellison: artificial intelligence (AI) will allow us to detect cancer and help develop a personalized vaccine in 48 hours.