America is facing a long-term care (LTC) crisis. By some accounts, about 70% of adults over age 65 will need long term care at some point. The supply of LTC facilities is far too low to meet demand, a fact unlikely to change considering few Americans have LTC insurance.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Thursday Links – 28 November 2024
- The cost of regulation over the last three administrations.
- Matt Ridley: How “experts” led to the rise of RFK.
- All that’s gone wrong at Scientific American.
- Rutgers study finds that DEI programs focused on “anti-racist” and “anti-oppressive” ideology tend to do the exact opposite. (New York Sun)
- Paragon: Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk — could save $2.1 trillion over a decade by making changes to Medicaid and Medicare by:
limiting the federal contribution to state Medicaid programs, axing the Medicaid provider tax safe harbor, imposing Medicaid work requirements, rescinding the Biden administration’s Medicaid rules, limiting Medigap cost-sharing, imposing Medicare site-neutral policies, boosting Medicare Advantage, eliminating, Medicare bad debt, reforming 340B, stopping the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, and capping the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance.
Wednesday Links
- Making HSAs more accessible for gig workers.
- Key to Trump’s goal of 3% growth: deregulation.
- How good are randomized control trial studies?
- Thirteen reanalyses (35%) led to interpretations different from that of the original article, 3 (8%) showing that different patients should be treated; 1 (3%), that fewer patients should be treated; and 9 (24%), that more patients should be treated.
- Biden proposes to cover weight loss drugs. Ten-year cost: $25 billion for Medicare and $11 billion for Medicaid.
- Health policy opportunities for Trump.