Many Red States have proposed to add work requirements to Medicaid eligibility. The Georgia Medicaid program is currently the only state in the nation to have a work requirement as a condition of eligibility, but other states have expressed an interest.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Tuesday Links
- The Surgeon General is wrong: Social media is not like tobacco.
- These are tough times for the Columbian village whose only product is cocaine. (NYT)
- More on organ aging.
- Have you ever wondered where Congress got the constitutional power to make smoking marijuana illegal?
- “There is no such thing as a profitable public digital health company in the mainstream of care delivery or even insurance–unless of course you count Optum. Which means there’s almost certainly no profitable VC-backed private company either.”
Monday Links
- Is exercise the most potent medical intervention we have?
- 22 million children now have access to school choice.
- The case for physician owned hospitals.
- The best-designed studies indicate that interventions focused on “social determinants of health” (inadequate housing, food insecurity, etc.) yield only weak effects on health.
- Class action litigation reduces corporate innovation, and vice versa.
- Confiscating every last penny from billionaires wouldn’t fund the U.S. government for one year.
TikTok Therapists Promoting Family Estrangement Therapy to Young People
Public health advocates report there is a growing mental health crisis among young people, especially since covid. One outcome of mental health challenges is an emerging therapeutic estrangement fad on social media. I’m referring to the trend of TikTok therapists and sociology gurus on YouTube counseling young adults on becoming estranged from family members.