- Making HSAs more accessible for gig workers.
- Key to Trump’s goal of 3% growth: deregulation.
- How good are randomized control trial studies?
- Thirteen reanalyses (35%) led to interpretations different from that of the original article, 3 (8%) showing that different patients should be treated; 1 (3%), that fewer patients should be treated; and 9 (24%), that more patients should be treated.
- Biden proposes to cover weight loss drugs. Ten-year cost: $25 billion for Medicare and $11 billion for Medicaid.
- Health policy opportunities for Trump.
Category: Consumer-Driven Health Care
NYT: Seniors Visit Physicians Often (too often in some cases)
Visiting the doctor is often an exercise in inconvenience. I once read that when you include travel time, waiting time, filling out paperwork, waiting in the exam room and talking with office nurse, that 15 minutes of face time with your doctor takes up about three hours out of your day.
Trump’s Health Policy Team
The public-health bureaucracy that the Trump administration will inherit is more focused on and skilled at treating America’s health problems than preventing them.
Source: Nicholas Florko in The Atlantic