Cost of Healthcare – Page 448 – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Prosecuting Medical Fraud or Policing for Profit?

Posted on May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 by Devon Herrick

A recent press release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida blasted the headline, Fraud Scheme Involving Baby Formula Leads to 18-Year Federal Prison Sentences for Swindlers. Health care fraud in South Florida should come as no surprise. With its large Medicare population, South Florida is a haven for all manner of medical fraud…

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Monday Links

Posted on May 23, 2022July 25, 2022 by John C. Goodman

Zeke Emanual: “a 1-in-33 chance” of long Covid is enough to keep him in an N95 mask, out of indoor restaurants and off trains and planes as much as possible.

Through little known programs, low- and moderate-income Medicare enrollees can get almost all their drug costs paid for, including the Part D premium.

The Covid pandemic was really profitable for some.

The White House is preparing for vaccine rationing.

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A Health Reform Whose Time Has Come

Posted on May 21, 2022May 24, 2022 by John C. Goodman

The basic idea: take all the spending and tax subsidies we now provide to private health insurance and use that money to give every American not on a government health plan a refundable tax credit. This money could be used to purchase health insurance and make deposits to Health Savings Accounts, from which people could purchase health services directly. Rep. Pete Sessions has a bill that would do just that. More

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Thursday Links

Posted on May 19, 2022July 25, 2022 by John C. Goodman

AMA boasts about recent legislative victories – keeping nurses from independently doing what they have been trained to do.

Yglesias: Use unspent covid funds to make next-generation vaccines.

What did parents do before there was baby formula?

People could get Covid 3 or 4 times in a single year.

Billions in pandemic unemployment funds lost to fraud.

By the next presidential inauguration, the Medicare trust fund will face imminent insolvency, running ever-increasing losses of $100 billion annually by the end of the decade.

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