What should be the FDA’s mission: to crank out drug approvals or only approve ones that are safe and effective?
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Monday Links
- Is Trump’s FDA worse than Biden’s?
- Jon Gruber’s latest ideas on health policy.
- The disability scam: At Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Amherst, that figure is 34 percent.
- To promote population growth, China is taxing condoms.
- 43 percent of Utah adults on safety-net programs admitted to having deliberately limited their household income to avoid losing government benefits, including by turning down a raise or promotion.
- GAO on Obamacare subsidies: $94 million paid to insurers for deceased people.
Congress Debating Extending Medicare Hospital Care at Home Program
Hospital care at home involves a homecare nurse (or homecare technician), who swings by to check on patients, administer medicines, change bandages, etc. This is primarily recovery. (i.e., There is no surgery being done on the dining room table.) One thing that is different today (besides better medicines) is the ability to monitor patients remotely. Vital signs can even be reviewed by a physician miles away.
Friday Links
- Mamdani has one good idea for New York City.
- Michael Cannon: The Minnesota fraud case is not usual.
- Obstacle to AI doctoring: there are no CPT codes. Another problem: It is explicitly illegal in all 50 states for AI to prescribe, treat, diagnose, and refer without an appropriate medical license.
- Reverse Flynn effect: IQ scores have been falling.
- The federal (Obamacare) exchange approved subsidized health insurance for 23 of 24 fictitious applications submitted by GAO.
- From 2018 to 2023, the number of direct primary care and concierge practice sites grew by 83.1 percent and the number of clinicians participating in them by 78.4 percent.