- 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)
Category: Experts
Medicare is a Battlefield
Kaiser Health News wrote about The Medicare Wars. Regardless of which party is using Medicare as an issue they will likely accuse the other side of a War on Seniors. A better description than “war” would be scaremongering among politicians to frighten senior voters. KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner reports politicians use Medicare as a scaremongering issue because it works.
Thursday Links
- Bill Gates: AI will revolutionize health care in the third world.
- Why do physicians “care” about their patients, any more than scientists care about a lab rat? Should they?
- HHS: surprise billing arbitrators are being swamped with claims. That’s because the law was poorly implemented.
- California’s highest concentrations of electric cars — between 10.9% and 14.2% of all vehicles — are in ZIP codes where residents are at least 75% white and Asian.
Washington Post: Medical Students Losing Interest in Emergency Medicine
March 17 was Match Day, the day when nearly 43,000 medical school graduates discovered where they would spend the next three to seven years finishing their graduate medical training. Residency is required before medical school graduates can practice medicine in the United States.