- NYU Lagone Health is offering virtual urgent care as an alternative to the emergency room.
- Matt Holt: while primary care is skimping by, hospitals have so much money they are paying their senior people million dollar salaries and starting hedge funds.
- Direct Primary Care: Society of Actuaries study: ER visit are 40% lower.
- Direct Primary Care case study: DPC reduced health plan spending by 54%, employees’ out-of-pocket costs at the point of care by 30%, and employee premiums by 20%.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Domestic Companies Producing PPE Want More Subsidies to Stay Afloat
Think back a little over four years ago in the late Spring of 2020. Covid was taking off and nobody really knew how to stop it. Everyone was advised to stay home and when you had to venture out you were required to wear a mask. Masks were hard to find. Latex gloves were hard to find. Hand sanitizer was difficult to find and toilet paper was too. A major problem during Covid was not just that demand had skyrocketed for protective gear (called PPE) but also protective gear was mostly made overseas in China. Global transportation ground to a halt making it hard to access PPE from abroad even if there was the capacity abroad to manufacture it.
Saturday Links
- More evidence that genes trump social factors in explaining behavioral outcomes.
- CDC: The new Covid vaccine is 54% effective.
- Len Schaeffer:
The level of variation in our health care system is unbelievable. You could be hospitalized for nine days in New York and for three days in California with the same diagnosis—and those differences would have no impact on outcomes. There is no other industry in the world that uses so many different approaches to the same thing and in which these differences don’t relate to better results. (Article is interesting throughout)
- “Imagine an integrated device that includes an insulin pump, a glucometer, and software that uses photos from a smartphone to carb count your food and dose insulin… The FDA’s regulatory framework is ill-equipped to deal [with this].”
- Is there a relationship between Medicaid expansion and the opioid crisis?
- The US has 36 million Health Savings Accounts, covering 72 million people.
Many Parental Variables Involved in Children’s Success
Parents contribute a lot to their offspring’s future wellbeing. A recent book called the Two-Parent Privilege discussed something that the Left does not want to admit: Having two parents in the home imparts a lot of financial and emotional advantages for kids. The book was controversial among some academics who are loath to admit that married parents make a difference.