Hospital care at home involves a homecare nurse (or homecare technician), who swings by to check on patients, administer medicines, change bandages, etc. This is primarily recovery. (i.e., There is no surgery being done on the dining room table.) One thing that is different today (besides better medicines) is the ability to monitor patients remotely. Vital signs can even be reviewed by a physician miles away.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Friday Links
- Mamdani has one good idea for New York City.
- Michael Cannon: The Minnesota fraud case is not usual.
- Obstacle to AI doctoring: there are no CPT codes. Another problem: It is explicitly illegal in all 50 states for AI to prescribe, treat, diagnose, and refer without an appropriate medical license.
- Reverse Flynn effect: IQ scores have been falling.
- The federal (Obamacare) exchange approved subsidized health insurance for 23 of 24 fictitious applications submitted by GAO.
- From 2018 to 2023, the number of direct primary care and concierge practice sites grew by 83.1 percent and the number of clinicians participating in them by 78.4 percent.
Thursday Links
- In Madagascar, lemurs are a delicacy – to dine on.
- Ultra processed foods are bad for the stomach and the intestines. (NYT)
- There are 3.2 million home health aides and personal care aides on the job last year, up from 1.4 million a decade ago – one-third of them are immigrants.
- What Britain will pay for drugs: about $26,500 to $40,000 for a healthy year of life saved.
- Why Social Security and Medicare need immigrants:
If all immigration were stopped, America’s working-age population would fall by about 5% through 2035 … while the number of seniors older than 80 — who generate much larger bills per person for Medicare … — will double.
Racial Outcomes in Maternal Mortality (Report Sept 2025)
This report to the Texas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was released in September. Merrill Matthews is the outgoing chair of the committee (after 17 years on the committee) and oversaw the hearings and production of this report. Click here to view the report.