- Health insurance companies supporting politicians who hate health insurance companies.
- Turns out, the US probably doesn’t have worse maternal mortality rates than other developed countries.
- How Medicaid drug pricing works – with and without Trump.
- AI’s favorite animal: the octopus.
- Dershowitz: “Canada is now our enemy.”
- Before 1962, developing a drug took about two years. Now it takes 12 to 14 years. Since 1975 real development costs have risen about 7.5% a year, roughly doubling every decade. Today, we estimate that bringing one successful drug to market costs about $9 billion on average. (This includes the cost of failed drugs and the time value of money.)
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
Monday Links
- In 72% of species, females lived longer than males.
- In any given year, 5% of the people spend half the heath care dollars, while half the people spend almost nothing.
- Obamacare premiums have increased nearly twice as fast as employer-based health insurance premiums since 2014.
- Falls cost $80 billion a year in health care costs. Some MA plans invest in preventing them.
- AEI: Let Social Security pay for “earned” benefits, but not “unearned” benefits.
Friday Links
- Mamdani’s New York: “residents of New York City already face a combined state, local, and federal top marginal income tax rate of 51.776 percent. New York has the highest per-pupil school spending in America, and the transit authority has the highest operating costs for buses and nearly the highest for subways in the country.”
- The number of veterans receiving a 100 percent disability rating has surged in recent years. (WaPo)
- Nordhaus: Global Warming is not going to be as bad as we thought.
- Incentives matter for the discovery of new drugs.
- How AI affects the discovery of new drugs.
- Why do so many Americans lack vision care insurance?
Would You Discuss Your Health with an AI Chatbot?
From the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Akst wrote:
Once upon a time, my wife’s uncle, Jim, delivered babies, set broken bones, diagnosed diseases, and helped people reconcile themselves to mortality. That’s what family physicians did in those days.
Things are different now, and the doctor I most often consult is AI. I’d prefer to see Uncle Jim, but if physicians like him still exist somewhere, I doubt I could get an appointment. How I ended up resorting to artificial intelligence—despite excellent health insurance and proximity to great care—says a lot about the state of healthcare in this country.