The NHS has not hit key targets — like four-hour emergency room waits and 62-day waits between initial referral and first cancer treatment — since 2015. As of July, over 7.6 million people were waiting for NHS services in England, including 290,000 who had been waiting more than a year.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Wednesday Links
- Milei’s incredible success so far in Argentina.
- Obamacare predictions that the experts got wrong.
- AEI makes the case for replacing the tax exclusion for employer paid heath insurance with a tax credit without ever mentioning the words “tax credit.”
- WSJ calls out the CMS “demonstration” project for what it really is: an “election bribe for seniors?” (WSJ)
Is Social Media Creating a Mental Health Crisis? Or Treating One?
It should come as no surprise that state attorneys general are on the lookout for other targets for lawsuits. It appears social media is the new one. More than two-thirds of states are suing Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. There are also suits against TikTok. Supposedly, social media is addictive (like cigarettes and opioids) and bad for youngsters’ mental health…
Tuesday Links
- Florida doctor accused of fatally removing the wrong organ from a patient has license suspended.
- The average chief executive in a publicly traded health care company earned $11 million. The median was $4.1 million. (StatNews)
- Nonprofit hospitals avoided paying $37.4 billion in taxes in 2021.
- The penalty for not signing up for Medicare drug coverage: Those not enrolling in a Part D or Medicare Advantage plan or entering these programs after they are initially offered at age 65 pay an additional monthly “drug coverage premium” penalty equal to the monthly cost of the plan in perpetuity. That is a big financial stick!