- Can access to credit affect the quality of health care hospitals deliver?
- Viewpoint: we are at the start of a 4th industrial revolution.
- Medicare Advantage telehealth primary care visits. They are more likely when the beneficiary is frail (39.4%), when the beneficiary is disabled (20.1%) and when low income (8.3%).
- Elevance study: Medicare Advantage saved Medicare as much as $144 billion over ten years. (I’ll have more to say about this study in the near future.)
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Saturday Links
- In most developed countries, out-of-pocket-spending on health care as a percent of household income is higher than it is in the US.
- Dr. Marty Makary on four health myths.
- Study: Expanding access to weight loss drugs could prevent more than 40,000 deaths a year in the United States.
- Researchers refuse to publish their own study showing that puberty blockers did not improve the mental health of children.
- A secret shopper survey called the first 100 doctors on Anthem’s directory. Only seven out of the 100 actually accepted the insurance and would take new patients.
- How often Nobel Prize winning economists have been wrong about national politics.
- Kotlikoff: Ten Medicare mistakes to avoid.
Friday Links
- Tomas Philipson: Why price controls on Ozempic could make overall health care costs go up.
- No, millionaires and billionaire’s do not pay lower tax rates than school teachers.
- 35% of bachelor’s degrees from liberal arts colleges result in a negative ROI.
- “In dual-income households within the top socioeconomic quintile, only 29 percent of wives earn more than their husbands, whereas in the bottom quintile, an incredible 69 percent of wives out-earn their husbands.” HT: Arnold Kling
- Ways in which FDR was anti-Black workers.
Does Free Medical School Tuition Benefit Doctors or Patients?
In early 2024 a former professor at Albert Einstein School of Medicine made a historic donation to the university worth $1 billion dollars. The donation will allow the school to no longer require its medical students to pay for tuition. This is huge. It is not uncommon for medical students to graduate with student loans of $200,000 to $300,000.