- Drug overdose deaths fell for the first time in five years.
- Seven reasons the country will become more conservative over the next ten years.
- Not enough babies: the entire world has fallen below the replacement rate.
- A solution to the doctor shortage: expand the use of physician’s assistants.
- MaskZero is the only product in the world that can kill covid-19 varmints and protect the wearer against other viruses. Kotlikoff interviews the inventor.
- New York Post: Fauci lied.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Is Private Equity Bad for Health Care?
Sen. Markey is particularly angry about Steward Health Care’s bankruptcy filing. An investment firm owns 31 Seward hospitals, many of which are in Massachusetts. The perverse incentives in health care are the primary problem. However, that is not something Sen. Markey proposes to address in his Health Over Wealth Act.
The AMA Can’t Figure Out How to Squeeze Telemedicine into an Outmoded System of Payment Codes
The revisions to remote physiologic monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring codes were considered at last week’s meeting of the American Medical Association’s CPT Editorial Panel, which includes health care professionals and representatives from medical specialty societies, hospitals, payers, and government. After discussion, the panel decided to postpone a vote on the merits of the revisions while various updates proposed during the meeting could be incorporated. The next editorial panel meeting is in September.
Source: STAT: Health Tech
Thursday Links
- Can chronic anger produce physical health effects?
- Why is Food Stamp spending soaring?
- About 3 million people who were on Medicaid, thought they were uninsured.
- Danish study: having children does not lower the mother’s lifetime income.
- The cost of extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts could be paid for by undoing much of the Biden administration’s spending binge.
- The sources of fake science are “paper mills” — businesses or individuals that, for a price, will list a scientist as an author of a wholly or partially fabricated paper. (WSJ)