- How UnitedHealth used secret rules to keep Medicare Advantage patients out of rehab.
- Former NIH director on lockdowns: You attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recovered.
- Medicare Advantage enrollment: As of 2021, 59% of Black Medicare beneficiaries, 67% of Hispanic beneficiaries, and 55% of Asian and Pacific Islander beneficiaries were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan as compared with 43% of White beneficiaries. Left out of the headline: These disparities mirror the same disparities found in traditional Medicare.
- Pandemic unemployment insurance benefits: Once they ended, the flow of people from unemployment to work increased by two thirds.
- How Medicare determines what it pays for medical care.
Category: Friday Links
Friday Links
- Placebos seem to work even when patients know they are taking a placebo. HT: Tyler
- Sen. Blackburn tweets on the Goodman/Gossage WSJ editorial.
- Amy Finkelstein, et. al. find that Jeff Brenner’s “hot spots” experiment in Camden, New Jersey can’t be duplicated.
- House Republican health care legislation gets a few things right.
- AI discovers a new structural class of antibiotics. HT: Tyler
- An AI pendant worn around your neck grades you on your interactions with others and tells you how to improve.
Friday Links
- Anthrobots are biological robots, made from human cells, that “can be coached to do something they would never have done on their own.”
- A critical analysis of a proposal to abolish the FDA, by Scott Alexander.
- Blue cities are more segregated than the rest of America.
- A brief history of torture in judicial proceedings, including the modern era.
- Despite its being in place for more than half a century and directing more than a billion dollars annually, there is limited evidence of the Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) program’s effectiveness at reducing geographic disparities in access to care or health outcomes.
Friday Links
- Tyler Cowen on the three university presidents testifying before Congress: “Overall this was a dark day for American higher education.”
- Biden Plans to Revoke Drug Patents to Lower Prices.
- How doctors get paid.
- Study: Children with liberal parents are more likely to suffer mental health problems.
- How does having too much to drink or eating a large meal prior to bed affect your sleep? A sleep tracker can tell you.
- A new way of harvesting organs – doctors take them before the donor is brain dead.