Thursday Links

Some hospitals get to be urban (using urban wage indexes for calculating Medicare reimbursements) and rural (benefiting from Medicare policies solely intended to support rural health) at the same time.  

Biden era Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT): It took the IRS two years and 600 pages of explanation to provide compliance instructions for businesses hit by CAMT, and still the introduction of the tax stalled around unresolvable administrative problems.

Bloomberg editors: $50B is not enough to save rural hospitals.

The downside of the adoption industry.

People who believe that life (with a soul) begins at conception have a problem with IVF. That’s always been true, even though it’s taken many years to sink in for most of them. That said, there is really nothing more to say, in my opinion. Yet, Scott Alexander has found a way to talk about this problem for page after page after page. Go figure.