- Why an advance directive is not as easy as you might think it is.
- Think AI will never replace you? Think again.
- The case for the Trump rule, as opposed to the Biden rule, on Association Health Plans.
- Since the Senate foreign aid bill (Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan) is not paid for, it will add $1,200 per household to our federal debt.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
NIH Spends $189 Million to Study What We Should Eat
The NIH is spending $189 million on a landmark study to precisely determine what you and I should eat. The study involves 10,000 volunteers, who will spend weeks and months recording their diets. According to the Wall Street Journal, 500 study participants will live in scientific facilities where they can be intensely monitored. The 500 will be tethered to blood glucose monitors and other measures to determine how each diet affects them.
Throwing Good Money after Bad
The goal of [the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation] (CMMI) is to identify demonstration models that aim to improve quality of care OR reduce spending. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may expand models nationwide if the Secretary determines that either criterion is met.
Source: House Budget Committee
Medicare Fraud is too Easy (and Widespread)
Late last summer Pamela Ludwig, owner of a Franklin, Tennessee firm that goes by the name Pretty in Pink Boutique, began receiving calls from angry Medicare enrollees across the country. The seniors were mad that their Medicare accounts had been charged for urinary catheters they did not need, nor had received. About the same time 1,300 miles away in El Paso, Texas Erika Tavarez too began receiving angry emails and then a visit from the FBI. She had recently sold a durable medical equipment business, also called Pretty in Pink, that provided prothesis for breast cancer survivors.