Friday Links

How UnitedHealth used secret rules to keep Medicare Advantage patients out of rehab.

Former NIH director on lockdowns: You attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recovered.

Headline: Disparities in Health Measures by Race and Ethnicity Among Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage.  Left  out of the headline: These disparities mirror the same disparities found in traditional Medicare.

Pandemic unemployment insurance benefits: Once they ended, the flow of people from unemployment to work increased by two thirds.

How Medicare determines what it pays for medical care.