Although the legislation allows states to begin eligibility redeterminations for Medicaid to reduce the nearly 20 million ineligible enrollees, it also makes it easier for many enrollees to keep Medicaid, creates a Medicaid slush fund, and unjustifiably funnels more taxpayer money to U.S. territories through Medicaid.
Category: Policy & Legislation
Simple Cancer Blood Test Turns Out to Be Anything but Simple
A simple blood test that looks for samples of DNA floating in the bloodstream of pregnant women is used to screen for numerous birth defects. It can also be used to screen for cancer.
Friday Links
- Study: Up to 31.6 percent of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments (intended to support hospitals that serve low-income patients) have gone to hospitals that do not care for very many low-income patients.
- “Tripledemic” news stories are just hype.
- California medical school admits it experimented on prisoners in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Hospital donors get VIP treatment and jump the queue when they need medical care. (NYT) Is anyone surprised by this? Is there anything wrong with it?
GOP Tax Cut Paid for Itself
The original Ryan/Brady tax reform bill was the brainchild of Larry Kotlikoff and Alan Auerbach and is described in this Goodman Institute report. Critics at the time said that the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 would produce an irresponsible increase in the federal deficit.