- Opportunities to cut waste: “Earlier this year, the Congressional Budget Office identified 1,264 already-expired authorizations and another 251 that were ending in autumn.”
- Prefab housing can cut the cost of housing by one-third or more. (Forbes) Unfortunately, many cities outlaw it.
- Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Critics: Work Requirements for Medicaid Enrollment Off to a Slow Start
Republicans have wanted to tie welfare benefits to work requirements for many years. One such proposal is to require some form of work in return for Medicaid benefits. Democrats opposed such measures, with the Obama and Biden Administrations blocking most applications. George is the only state so far with work requirements tied to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Critics argue that the program is boosting inefficiencies and slowing down enrollment in other welfare programs, like food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. In Georgia employment verification for Medicaid eligibility and enrollment has been slow.
Thursday Links – 5 December 2024
- To do want he wants to do, RFK Jr will be head of the wrong agency.
- More than 50% of the AMA’s revenue in 2023, or $266 million, came from a budget category that includes medical billing codes. (Statnews)
- From 1997 to 2011, 85% of the increase in real per-capita Medicare spending was on newly created procedure codes.
- Final House Select Committee report: Covid likely came for the Wuhan lab.
- More than one-third of 100 hospitals reviewed did not properly post machine-readable pricing data, as required by law.
Why Electronic Medical Records are a Failure of Epic Proportions
Some of the benefits of electronic medical records were supposed to be better care, more efficient care and better care coordination. It didn’t happen that way. In a (now) 5-year old analysis Kaiser Family Foundation discussed what went wrong: The article, Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong outlines an all too familiar tale.