Bad as the recent Trustees Report is, the reality is likely to be much worse. According to Jim Capretta, the current projection is based on Obamacare constraints that are unlikely to be continued.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
WSJ: Hospitals Increasingly Demand Patients’ Share of the Bill before Surgery
The Wall Street Journal reports that hospitals increasingly demand patients pay up front before getting surgeries. Hospitals are purportedly tired of having to chase after patients to collect what they owe.
Friday Links
- Missing from the progressives’ 2024 agenda: Medicare for All.
- Medicaid waivers have consistent outcomes: more Medicaid spending.
- The very top performers in virtually any field are extremely smart.
- The average time to see a physician in 2o20 was 26 days—an 8 percent increase from 2017 and a 24 percent spike since 2004.
- The CDC’s definition of misinformation: anything that contradicts the views of the CDC.
Tuesday Links
- Some 23 million households receive broadband subsidies, which is more than the number on food stamps.
- Latest Covid vaccine study: the vaccine has no benefits for children or for healthy adults. There are adverse risks. This is based on the largest study to date – covering 99 million people.
- Upcoding explained.
- Between 2014 and 2020, the death rates for Black children and teenagers rose by about 37 percent, and for Native American youths by about by about 22 percent — compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
- Trustees Update: The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted in 2036, and the combined Social Security trust fund will become exhausted in 2035.