Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Study: MA enrollees have over 70% fewer hospital readmissions and 25% fewer preventable inpatient admissions. MA exhibits lower rates of inappropriate medication use and comparable rates of medication adherence.
- How AI will change education: tutors work better than classroom instruction; but while human tutors are expensive, AI tutors may be cheap.
- Prices for new US drugs rose 35% in 2023, more than the previous year. Is this what Biden is going to run on?
- Cato video on telehealth.
- More on “if the government doesn’t regulate surgery, why does it regulate new drugs?”
Friday Links
- Coming to the market soon: noninvasive, AI-powered brain decoders that can translate into text the unspoken thoughts swirling through our minds.
- Another argument that FDA approval for new drugs should depend on safety alone, not efficacy.
- The US Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has a 10-year backlog of claims.
- “…the student loan program, as currently written, is looking to be one of the most costly, inefficient and unwise government programs of the 21st century.”
- More than half of all rural hospitals no longer deliver babies.
Friday Links
- Over half the new jobs in January’s report are in government or health care.
- Smoking is worse than you’ve been told. Long lasting effects after you quit.
- What happens when doctors become hospital employees? Medicare patients’ use of non-hospital sources for chemotherapy declined by 14% from 2015 to 2021, and chemotherapy performed in hospitals increased by 21%. More than half of Medicare chemotherapy patients now receive their treatments in hospitals, where the prices are higher.
- How health insurance eats into wages. Premiums for a family made up about 8% of employees’ compensation in 1988. If they stayed at that level for the next 32 years, a typical family would have earned an additional $8,774 in 2019. The cumulative value of lost earnings tops $125,000.