Thursday Links

The 21% corporate tax rate is permanent. Other parts of the 2017 tax bill expire next year.

How to lower the cost of Part B drugs: let Medicare Advantage plans do the negotiating.

Because of a questionable gimmick, California’s Medicaid program that will get $19.4 billion in additional federal funds. This is revenue other states will not get.

Give Walmart credit for lower insulin prices – not Trump or Biden.

Only about 60% of psychiatrists accept new Medicare patients, and just 43% accept new Medicaid patients. (STAT)   Plus, there is this:

“A psychiatrist could make more than double from seeing a patient and billing them directly rather than taking Medicare, and make three times as much compared to Medicaid.”