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Tuesday Links

Posted on October 17, 2023October 16, 2023 by Pieter Vorster

This is a moment of choosing for the American left. Many will side with Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib. That could damage the Progressive brand. It deserves to be damaged.

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Monday Links

Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 by John C. Goodman

There are about 36 million Health Savings Accounts holding $104 billion.
What the elites don’t understand about obesity.
Built-in programming for your self-driving car: Should it risk injury to you to avoid hitting a pedestrian? Or the other way around? (WSJ)
The case for kicking ineligible people off the Medicaid rolls. (DMN)
It may not be the onset of Alzheimer’s: memory lapses are normal.
The ACCESS Act would allow roughly 5 million lower-income individuals to redirect their cost sharing subsidy (which now goes to insurance companies) into Health Savings Accounts (which they would own and control). Dean Clancy comments.

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Should We Spend Our Entire GDP on Health Care?

Posted on October 16, 2023October 17, 2023 by Devon Herrick

How much medical care does society owe Americans that they could not otherwise afford? It’s not a philosophical question, such as how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. This question plays out every day.

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CBO: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Not Very Innovative

Posted on October 14, 2023 by Devon Herrick

The poorly named Affordable Care Act created the office of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). As Joe Albanese explains in National Review the new agency’s mission

…is to test new ways of paying for and delivering health-care services in federal health programs through pilot programs called “models.” These models are required by law to reduce costs and/or improve quality of care, which they pursue by enacting major policy changes.

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