- Newsmax is now more valuable than Fox.
- How researchers are measuring world happiness.
- A Trump Administration proposed rule would lower ACA premiums by five percent or more, reduce improper enrollment by a million or more people, and reduce deficits by $150 billion over a decade, making it one of the most fiscally responsible regulatory actions in American history.
- There is huge waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
Trump to Go After Medicare/Medicaid Fraud… Maybe
President Trump recently announced his intend to combat fraud within the federal health agencies, including Medicare and Medicaid. This is long overdue. As was posted earlier on the Goodman Institute Health Blog, fraud is a function of: 1. the expected penalty for fraud, 2. imperfect reimbursement rates. These are consistent with the opinion of Jacob Elberg, formerly an assistant U.S. attorney.
Tuesday Links
- One in five Americans has turned to alternative medicine in place of conventional medicine at some point.
- Sweden is offering $34,000 to immigrants who agree to leave the country. (NYT)
- Ezra Klein explains to Jon Stewart all the regulatory obstacles to getting rural broadband.
- The loss of GDP from Trump’s Wednesday tariff hikes is more than the gain from extending the TCJA tax bill.
Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors in 10 Years
Physicians used to be patients’ primary source of health information. Nowadays, people look up diseases and conditions online, learning more in a few minutes than their doctors would ever have time to explain. More than half of Americans (58.5%) used the Internet to look up heath information in 2022. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make diagnosis even easier. Microsoft founder, Bill Gates even thinks AI will be able to replace your doctor in 10 years.
Read more at:
- People: Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors, Teachers in Next 10 Years
- Harvard Magazine: Bill Gates on AI and Innovation