- How we benefited from the 2017 (Trump) tax cuts.
- Two (pandemic-related) doomsday predictions that never happened: a child care crisis and women leaving the labor force because of lack of child care and paternity leave.
- Another (Covid-related) doomsday prediction that never happened: one-in-ten- Americans are at risk of being evicted.
- Raw milk is dangerous; so why are sales surging?
- Kamala explains inflation: “Because of the Inflation Reduction Act … we are dropping trillions of dollars on the streets of America right now.”
- When donating blood is better than a payday loan.
Category: Policy & Legislation
Saturday Links
- Drug overdose deaths fell for the first time in five years.
- Seven reasons the country will become more conservative over the next ten years.
- Not enough babies: the entire world has fallen below the replacement rate.
- A solution to the doctor shortage: expand the use of physician’s assistants.
- MaskZero is the only product in the world that can kill covid-19 varmints and protect the wearer against other viruses. Kotlikoff interviews the inventor.
- New York Post: Fauci lied.
Is Private Equity Bad for Health Care?
Sen. Markey is particularly angry about Steward Health Care’s bankruptcy filing. An investment firm owns 31 Seward hospitals, many of which are in Massachusetts. The perverse incentives in health care are the primary problem. However, that is not something Sen. Markey proposes to address in his Health Over Wealth Act.
The AMA Can’t Figure Out How to Squeeze Telemedicine into an Outmoded System of Payment Codes
The revisions to remote physiologic monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring codes were considered at last week’s meeting of the American Medical Association’s CPT Editorial Panel, which includes health care professionals and representatives from medical specialty societies, hospitals, payers, and government. After discussion, the panel decided to postpone a vote on the merits of the revisions while various updates proposed during the meeting could be incorporated. The next editorial panel meeting is in September.
Source: STAT: Health Tech