- How Obamacare changed the health insurance marketplace.
- Worker pay and worker productivity are almost perfectly correlated.
- Florida GOP investigates a $10 million Medicaid contractor settlement payment that went to Casey DeSantis’s foundation.
- Yale has one administrator for every undergraduate student.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Saturday Links
- AAF: tariffs are especially bad for small business.
- Site neural payments would save taxpayers an estimated $150 billion over 10 years.
- Historically, Washington covered about 60% of Medicaid costs. Today, Washington pays nearly 75%.
- Merely requiring states to more frequently check whether current beneficiaries still qualify would save federal taxpayers $115 billion over a decade.
- The prophet’s paradox: The better policymakers manage a potential crisis, the more likely it is that the public will perceive their actions as overreactions.
- Breakthrough: scientists send a quantum message.
- AEI: Fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid and Medicare.
Is the Doctor-Patient Relationship Declining?
Today about three-quarters of physicians have a boss. They are employees of hospitals, private equity-owed group practices, and even work for retail clinics. The trust doctors and patients may have shared in 1963 is eroding due to insurance coverage, time constraints and even perverse medical norms.