- Capretta: How the House reconciliation bill affects Medicaid.
- Republican Medicaid work requirement: “between 40 percent and 56 percent of childless non-disabled Medicaid recipients age 19–64 would not have been in compliance in 2022.”
- Why do we care how much is spent on Medicaid?
- UnitedHealthcare internal document on how to respond to sensitive issues accidentally sent to a reporter. (Statnews)
- If we could eradicate mosquitoes, should we?
- Updated CBO numbers on the House reconciliation bill: Medicaid would be cut $863 billion over 10 years and 10.9 million people would be without health insurance in 2034.
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
Argument: even super AI won’t take all our jobs. Ozempic for everyone? In addition to weight loss and treating diabetes, it appears to help with heart, kidney and liver diseases, sleep apnea, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol addiction and even aging. (WSJ) Hospital lobbyists blocked site neutrality from the reconciliation bill – a measure that would…
Friday Links
- California Medicaid (Medi-Cal) covers 1.6 million illegal immigrants at an estimated cost of $6.4 billion.
- Defense of the idea that 1.2 million Americans died of Covid.
- People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder should not have access to pot.
- Yglesias: Don’t ban lab grown meat.
- Marco Rubio claim repeated at Marginal Revolution: Only 12 cents of every dollar spent from USAID went to recipients, the other 88 cents went to NGOs who pocketed the money.
- Refuted by Scott Alexander.
Friday Links
- The plan that is now being debated in the House has net spending reductions of roughly $1.2 trillion. Instead of spending $89.3 trillion, the “cruel” Republicans want to only spend $88.1 trillion – a measly 1.5% cut.
- “Our research finds that the growing presence of asylum seekers [illegal immigrants] residing in homeless shelters explains about 60 percent of this rise in sheltered homelessness.”
- “The Trump administration handed Medicare Advantage plans a massive gift on Monday, finalizing payment rates for 2026 significantly higher than what regulators in the Biden administration sketched out.”
- An “intelligent” hospital room allows for virtual nursing.
- Antarctica’s massive ice sheet is growing, not shrinking.