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
White House Announced More Discount Drug Deals: Is That Good?
The White House announced that nine additional drugmakers have agreed to sell selected drugs at significantly lower prices. The companies agreed to sell drugs to the Medicaid system for prices like those charged to other rich countries and to provide massive discounts to consumers paying cash through TrumpRx.gov.
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.