- David Henderson on the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
- Bill Gates: The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) together have saved about 37 million people since 2003. (WSJ)
- Joe Klein: It is hard to win elections when you hate your country.
- Andrew Biggs: Social Security is in trouble because the initial benefit is wage indexed.
- High school graduation rates are up; SAT scores are down. (We are handing out diplomas to students who can’t read.)
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
NYT: Medicare to Curtail Abusive Spending on Hyper-Expensive Bandages
Going after Medicare abuse is like playing whack a mole. Just when you think you have made some headway another mole pops out. The Biden Administration, and now the Trump Administration, is moving to limit the use – and limit the price paid – for so-called skin substitutes in Medicare. Skin substitutes are newfangled bandages.
Wednesday Links
- “One recent estimate has 24 percent of women in the United States currently having or being treated for depression [with antidepressants] compared to 11 percent of men.”
- Study: universal basic income trial had zero impact on child outcomes.
- Biden’s Chief Economist has decided that federal debt is a problem.
- A Greenland shark can live 400 years or more.
- OpenEvidence’s proprietary algorithms search millions of peer-reviewed publications, including in top journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association to help doctors find the best answers fast, with full citations to papers so doctors can read more for themselves. The software is free for verified doctors to use and makes money through advertising—much like Google does.
Health Care AI Has Potential, but Faces Obstacles
Training AI requires consuming copious amounts of data. Consume bad data and the output will be wrong. In computer science this is called garbage in / garbage out. In some AI models once a bad piece of information is learned it becomes exceedingly difficult to purge it.