- Why a nursing home staff mandate will hurt patients.
- Trends in health care: private equity, M & A and digital health.
- Cato study: charter schools improve reading scores and reduce absenteeism at traditional public schools.
- How to increase US economic growth and why that matters.
- Biden has raised more money from tariffs than Trump did.
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Do you know what a “walkaway death” is?
- Headline I wish I hadn’t seen:
One of the Heritage Foundation’s telehealth policy recommendations for a 2025 GOP president stands at stark odds with policies advocated by telehealth stakeholders and included in GOP-backed telehealth aimed at cementing Medicare telehealth permanency.
- Heritage, of course is right. See Mandate for Leadership (2025) Pages 483 and 488.
- How California uses Medicaid to rip you off. It taxes providers, then gives the money back as Medicaid funding and draws federal matching money in the process. (WSJ)
- NYT (for the first time, I think) allows its lead editorial to advocate the buying and selling of kidneys. (NYT)
- Glasses matter: Garment workers, artisans and tailors in Bangladesh who were provided with free reading glasses experienced a 33 percent increase in income compared to those who were not given glasses.
- More on Glasses: For nearly a billion people in the developing world, reading glasses are a luxury that many cannot afford. (NYT)
Friday Links
- California had the worst job growth of any state.
- How Medicare pays providers: for the fiscal year that began on October 1, the new rule for hospital inpatient care is just short of 800 pages, with three columns of text for most of the published pages. The physician fee schedule and skilled nursing facilities rules for 2024 run 1227 and 147 pages, respectively.
- Other things equal, 3 psychological traits (competitiveness, risk tolerance, and confidence) lead to higher incomes.
- The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review determined that a cost-effective price for the newly approved gene therapy Lenmeldy is between $2.3M and $3.9M. Orchard Therapeutics, will be asking $4.25M.
- Why is colon cancer rising among young adults, but falling for seniors?
Friday Links – 15 March 2024
- Updating the Hippocratic oath.
- Medicare Advantage plans get paid 6% more than traditional Medicare but they are 13% less costly.
- The main reason why traditional Medicare is so wasteful: 70% of enrollees have Medigap insurance, which means the cost of care to the patient is essentially zero.
- Government employees make 40% more than private sector workers. Plus, they have de facto tenure.
- Private health care is the new normal in Britain.