In recent years left-of-center public health advocates have tried to expand the scope of what is considered public health care.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Why Medicare Advantage Improves Care and Reduces Costs
Fee-for-service Medicare is expensive and too often is poorly delivered. The fee-based payment model pays more for bad and failed care because when the caregivers are paid only by the piece, they have more pieces to deliver when care fails. They deliver and bill for even more pieces when the health of a member deteriorates.
Thursday Links
- Does the Constitution guarantee a right to take drugs?
- How did this become a crime? McKinsey allegedly tried to help Purdue tailor its sales efforts to doctors who already prescribed oral opioid drugs.
- Yglesias: Americans have been gaining weight for as far back as we have records.
- More from Yglesias: The human animal … evolved to overeat a modest amount whenever food is widely available in order to hedge against starvation risk in the future.
- New Alzheimer’s treatments are bogged down by Medicare’s bureaucracy. (Chicago Tribune)
The Perfect Study to Ponder on Juneteenth
Economists Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago) and Trevon Logan (Ohio State University) “One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains.”
We calculate that emancipation generated economic gains that exceed estimated costs of the Civil War …. Economic gains from emancipation are comparable to those from the largest increases in aggregate productivity in American history….