- Health care reform ideas from Joe Lonsdale.
- 73% of college educated women say they would be less likely to date someone if he was a Trump supporter.
- A simple coding change apparently boosted the number of patients judged to have a large hernia by 18% in just one year.
- China graduates more than five times as many iSTEM students as the US does. But we knock their socks off on gender studies and sociology.
- “It’s well-known that when a couple has a child, the average woman experiences a “child penalty” in labor market outcomes, while outcomes for the man are largely unchanged.”
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Friday Links
- Hooper’s Impossibility Theorem.
- Although the federal tax and transfer system is progressive, state and local tax and transfer systems are close to proportional, on average.
- Health care from Amazon for $9 a month.
- Trump’s first few days.
- Half a billion dollars advertises a largely cosmetic drug.
- Robots in nursing homes.
- On average, a typical enrollee can expect to save nearly $140 per month in out-of-pocket costs by picking a Medicare Advantage plan over traditional Medicare.
Can Republicans Fix the Affordable Care Act?
Congressional Republicans have long opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the landmark 2010 law that created Obamacare. With a majority in both houses of Congress, President Trump and Republicans have an unprecedented opportunity to reform the ACA. The thought of changing the poorly conceived health care law is a sacrilege to Democrats.
Thursday Links
- Argument: RFK, Jr. is being unfairly blamed for the measles outbreak in Samoa.
- RFK, Jr. says he is open to seizing drug patents.
- Some positive aspects of Medicare drug price negotiation.
- The changing definition of obesity.
- Study: reference pricing could save state employee health plans $7.1 billion a year.
- Reference pricing update: In Oklahoma, 99.3 percent of hospitals and 80.0 percent of physicians participate. South Carolina has 100 percent hospital participation and 2more than 99 percent of physicians.