- AEI reforms the health care system: antitrust, price transparency and site neutrality for hospitals; Medicare Part B and 340B reforms for drugs.
- Why electronic medical records aren’t working.
- The downside of making the overdose reversal drug naloxone an over-the-counter drug: most health insurance doesn’t pay for OTC drugs.
- Study: telehealth significantly reduced opioid overdoses during the pandemic.
- Americans want less government spending, but not on any program you are likely to think of.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Thursday Links
- Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) leads a bipartisan group of House members who want to bring drug production onshore.
- Warren piles on — attacking MA plans. Private insurers have a “long history of exploiting the government out of billions of dollars,” she says.
- Against the “AI pause.”
- Yglesias: The problem with the media is the audience.
- Does Medicaid expansion reduce employment?
Tuesday Links
- Low income, large debts cause stress. They needed a poll to know this?
- Two-thirds of patients have never challenged the accuracy of a medical bill.
- Reason for the Adderall shortage: government. (NYT)
- What great thinkers seem to agree on: Walking is good. (NYT)
- Can electricity improve the functioning of the brain? (NYT)
Monday Links
- Why diet when you can take a pill?
- AEI study: In Utah, nearly 100% of children leave foster care within three years, while in Illinois, less than half do.
- Sex life of turtles.
- Health Affairs study: HHS reduction in Medicare Advantage payments will cause $60 per year premium increase per beneficiary, small copay increases, and increases of about $27 in annual deductibles.
- Can robots replace caregivers for the elderly? (NYT)