With the end of the covid emergency millions of Americans enrolled in Medicaid found they were no longer eligible. Medicaid eligibility fluctuates over time for many families. Medicaid is a patchwork of 50 state programs with eligibility that varies by age and income. Pandemic-era protections against disenrollment began expiring in the Spring of 2023 with Medicaid coverage coming to an end for many Americans. An important question public health advocates have is what happened to people dropped from the federal-state health program?
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Study: Plant-Based Meat No Healthier than Animal Protein (also, meat isn’t really bad for you)
Several years ago, the New York Times ran a headline, Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice. While nobody is suggesting Americans eat fewer vegetables, which are undoubtedly healthy, there is more evidence that meat isn’t the boogeyman we once thought it was.
Depressing News About Organ Transplants
The bad news in this post comes to us via Alex Tabarrok at the Marginal Revolution blog.