Hospitals are price gougers to be avoided at all costs, especially if you don’t need to be in a hospital. A good rule of thumb is to never get services performed at a hospital unless you are too sick to go anywhere else.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Thursday Links
- The Pilgrims’ real Thanksgiving lesson
- Was the original Thanksgiving a celebration of the massacre of Indians? No. That’s woke propaganda.
- How to get 8 countries to cooperate on cancer drug research: Start the project before telling any of the regulators.
- Bidenflation: Employer health insurance costs are up 7%; Obamacare exchange plans are up 6%.
- Why are those who supported the Covid lockdowns trying to suppress research showing that the lockdowns didn’t work?
- CDC: Last year’s flu shot was less than 50 percent effective for children and adolescents.
Wednesday Links
- When a key employee leaves: OpenAI is in open chaos.
- More on Sam Altman: he believed his company’s products could kill us all.
- Social Security’s Widows Scam: Some 13,000 widows have been effectively defrauded out of over $130 million dollars.
- 59 percent of Americans say money can buy happiness. How much money? Around $1.2 million.
- Why choice of a doctor matters: Between the top and bottom quartiles of spending, 79% of the difference is due to utilization and 19% is due to a difference in prices.
Tuesday Links
- Is there anything wrong with using AI apps to decide on pre authorization denials for patients?
- Space has a garbage problem: There are 34,260 objects tracked in orbit, and just 25% of them are working satellites.
- Spending on the elderly is baked in – seniors get their benefits no matter what Congress does. But most programs for children require reauthorization – and spending gets stalled by the congressional stop gap funding process.
- A California hospital billed $10.2 billion in gross charges in the last quarter. But 86% of this amount disappeared after discounts to the payers were applied.
- A libertarian is elected president in Argentina. John Fund: “A century ago Argentina was one of the six wealthiest countries in the world. Now it ranks 66th, below Mexico and just above Russia.”