- Debt and more debt.
- How computer programs determine how much pain medication you are allowed to have.
- What happens when employees go out of network?
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Are Senior Homeowners Aging in Place or Stuck or Stuck in Place?
I toured a naturally occurring retirement community (NORC) in Queens, New York a few years ago. It was an Aging in Place initiative, partly funded by the Denver-based Daniels Fund. Fun fact: The fund was established by Bill Daniels before he died. His fortune came from basically inventing cable TV. The purpose of a NORC is to allow people in the community to age in their own homes as long as possible, rather than forced to move into assisted living.
Tuesday Links
- Yglesias on why our life expectancy is lower than in other developed countries: Americans are more likely to die violently, to die in car accidents, and to die of drug overdoses than are Europeans. We’re also a lot fatter.
- Why doing university-based research has become so costly.
- Self-directed care is now available for veterans in rural areas – and it works.
- Fallout from the Dobbs decision: tubal ligations and vasectomies are up.
- Suppose you are willing to be a guinea pig in a medical experiment. Where can you find out where your sacrifice will have the highest social value? No one seems to know.
A New Government Initiative Aims to Root Out Anticompetitive Practices in Health Care
There is an old idiom in American English, “he shut the barn door after the horse has bolted.” The saying refers to someone who initiates preventive measures after it is too late. This is another way of saying an action was too little, too late. This analogy applies to a new initiative of the federal government to root out anticompetitive behavior in the health care industry.