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Category: Cost of Healthcare

Study: Solo Seniors Rely on Informal Networks of Friends and Family for Assisted Living

Posted on November 29, 2024 by Devon Herrick

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.

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Friday Links

Posted on November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • The Pilgrims’ Real Thanksgiving Lesson
  • The best of Trump from a Trump critic.
  • Trump picks Jim O’Neill for No. 2 spot at HHS.
  • Why don’t we have more gene therapy?
  • What RFK needs to do with the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH.
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Thursday Links – 28 November 2024

Posted on November 28, 2024November 28, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • 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.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on November 27, 2024November 26, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • 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.
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