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Friday Links

Posted on May 5, 2023May 4, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • What a hospital in the home is like at Mayo. Note: this is only possible because of Covid relaxation of normal Medicare and Medicaid rules.
  • A proposal for value-based drug pricing. I am skeptical
  • AI is learning how to read your mind. MRI scans reveal unexpressed thoughts.
  • Private industry developed a nonaddictive painkiller. The FDA is why it isn’t widely available. (WSJ)
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Thursday Links

Posted on May 4, 2023May 3, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • Why don’t we have more human challenge trials for vaccines and other new drugs?
  • Study: Minimum wage increases do not reduce poverty.
  • Why does Medicare require a three-day hospital stay before it will pay for a skilled nursing facility transfer? Medicare Advantage plans don’t require this.
  • Has the US ever defaulted on its debt before? Yes, three times.
  • More than 20% of Medicaid enrollees no longer meet the criteria for program eligibility. States have not conducted redeterminations of Medicaid enrollees’ eligibility in more than three years.
  • US Surgeon General: loneliness is  as dangerous as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day.
  • Medical researchers: Don’t skip breakfast. Even a cup of coffee can have a positive effect. (NYT)
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Surgeon General: Devastating Impact of the Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Devon Herrick

The U.S. Surgeon General is afraid you don’t hangout enough with friends. Seriously, in the Information Age when people have never been more connected, he believes loneliness a public health crisis. Calling it an epidemic of loneliness, the Surgeon General’s report spans 81 pages including references.

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Wednesday Links

Posted on May 3, 2023May 2, 2023 by John C. Goodman
  • “Longer life with no greater proportion lived in good health equals more years in poor health—statistically, for the population at large.” Interesting throughout, with implications for research and public policy priorities.
  • Obesity drugs could save Medicare $100 billion a year.
  • 40% of privately insured patients  receive no preventive care, despite the ACA mandate for free coverage.
  • David Henderson grades the US on how far we have come toward achieving Karl Marx’s ten public policy goals.
  • Monopoly matters: “in states in which the market share of the dominant health insurer exceeded 71 percent…[that] payer, on average, paid 14.7 percent less to hospitals than market-leading insurers in more competitive insurance markets.”
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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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