- We have been advocating OTC birth control for years.
- Adverse selection problems in insurance markets go away if people must insure by household rather than as individuals. At least in Pakistan.
- Is your doctor employed by a private equity firm? (NYT)
- AARP Represents Health Insurers, Not Seniors
- Is compression of morbidity being reversed? Considering 300 diseases in the USA from 1990 vs. 2017, health span (health-adjusted life expectancy) grew by 2 years, but life expectancy grew by 3 years.
- The Health Care Blog goes wacko: “The greatest health equity threat to Medicaid – and Medicare – beneficiaries is the climate crisis.”
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- New Zealand adopts affirmative action for its medical waiting lists.
- Governments around the world have spent $1.34 trillion to fight climate change.
- Is virtual care the answer for Obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure in seniors?
- It’s a cocktail after cocktails: an IV drip for hangovers. (NYT)
- Hot dog eating contests: scientists have determined that the human body is capable of eating — at most — 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
- Drinking alcohol before or after intense exercise isn’t advised. (NYT)
- Mark Cuban Cost Pus Drugs to sell biosimilars ($569 v. $6,922 for Yusimry)
Friday Links
- NPR: $142,938 in medical costs for a young camper’s snakebite.
- Robert Graboyes tells the rest of the story: the family paid none of the bill.
- CBO: Over the next 30 years, federal spending averages 25.7 percent of GDP while revenues average 18.4 percent of GDP.
- Green madness: You’d have to burn a pizza stove 849 years to equal one year of John Kerry’s private jet.
- Drug shortages explained: Over time, price and margin erosion lead to essential medicines becoming low-margin commodities, and eventual production and supply issues create vulnerability to shortages and susceptibility to low reinvestment.
- Medicaid managed care explained: Enrollment in the lowest-spending plan reduces spending by at least 25 percent [but] rather than reducing “wasteful” spending, lower-spending plans broadly reduce medical service provision— including the provision of low-cost, high-value care—and worsen beneficiary satisfaction and health.
Friday Links
- Woke ideology is subverting biology.
- About 40 percent of those surveyed said they had delayed or gone without care in the last year because of the expense.
- Cassidy: Sanders is prioritizing partisan labor legislation (that will never pass the Senate) over bipartisan health legislation (that could pass. (InsideHealthPolicy – gated)
- Medicare reform failures: “While MACRA’s goal of moving Medicare beyond fee-for-service and towards paying for value was reasonable and broadly popular, its … alternative payment models have not fostered quality improvement … and … have also failed to deliver savings.”
- Effect of Lockdowns plus teacher unions: 13-year-olds record lowest test scores in decades.