- Can access to credit affect the quality of health care hospitals deliver?
- Viewpoint: we are at the start of a 4th industrial revolution.
- Medicare Advantage telehealth primary care visits. They are more likely when the beneficiary is frail (39.4%), when the beneficiary is disabled (20.1%) and when low income (8.3%).
- Elevance study: Medicare Advantage saved Medicare as much as $144 billion over ten years. (I’ll have more to say about this study in the near future.)
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Friday Links
- “Citi estimates that GLP-1 drugs could boost GDP by 0.5 percent to one percent in rich countries.”
- Why it’s become harder to extend life expectancy: Low hanging fruit is gone, now all we do is find ways to save old people for short periods of time so they just die of something else.
- “In 1940, the average worker retired at age 68 and had a much shorter life expectancy. If people retired today with the same remaining life expectancy as the 1940 retiree, they would retire at about age 77 on average.”
- Quality ratings for Medicare Advantage plans are misleading and unreliable. Ratings for ACOs are even worse.
Thursday Links
- How Republicans would change the CDC.
- The effect of one of the eat-your-spinach SS reforms: raising the normal retirement age.
- Since the passage of IRA, drug companies have discontinued an additional 36 research and over 21 drug development programs. In oncology alone, over a dozen drug development programs have been discontinued.
- The Biden-Harris administration wasted nearly one billion on covid misinformation
WHO: Tuberculosis Top Killer Worldwide
Now that the Covid-19 Pandemic has waned tuberculosis is once again the top killer of people worldwide. By some estimates the mortality rate is about 50% if left untreated. More than eight million people around the world are infected with tuberculosis (TB), according to the World Health Organization