Health Economics & Costs – Page 299 – The Goodman Institute Health Blog

Wednesday Links

Posted on April 3, 2024April 2, 2024 by John C. Goodman

Cancer phobia: In 2017, 21.3 million American women had cancer screening tests even though they were outside the age ranges for recommended screening. 10.1 million men outside the recommended age ranges had a PSA test.
People with Obamacare health insurance are being switched to other plans without their knowledge or consent by rogue agents.
Why are expensive cancer treatments excluded from Medicare’s price negotiations?
Henry Miller: “The vaccines saved 2.9 million lives, prevented 12.5 million hospitalizations, and saved $500 billion in hospitalization.”

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Tuesday Links

Posted on April 2, 2024April 1, 2024 by John C. Goodman

Food stamp households spend a disproportionate share of their food budget on unhealthy items, such as sugary beverages and prepared desserts. And it’s worse than other low-income households who don’t have food stamps.
Social Security tells Kotlikoff the number of Social Security clawback letters per year is probably closer to 3 million. (It started at 1M in a congressional hearing; then jumped to 2M in answer to a FOIA request by KFF; and now it’s at 3M. (No telling what the real answer is.)
Less than half of the benefit of Obamacare subsides goes to the newly insured. One-third of it is wasted.
In 2023, 79 percent of (Obamacare) enrollees received subsidies (up from 44 percent in 2015), at an average cost of $20,739 per enrollee gaining coverage.

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Monday Links

Posted on April 1, 2024April 1, 2024 by John C. Goodman

“We find that one-quarter of food-insecure households fall within the top three quintiles of the income distribution and that food-insecure households spend about as much as food-secure households do on food per week.”
Biden lowers the hammer on short-term insurance: plans can only last 3 months with a 1 month renewal.
This year alone, the federal government will spend more than $1.1 trillion to fund more than 130 anti-poverty programs. State and local governments will kick in an additional $700 billion, pushing total anti-poverty spending to more than $1.8 trillion. If all that money were given to the poor it would equal $47,493 per person.
Bob Moffett authors another review of Modernizing Medicare.
There have been 70 legal changes to Obamacare so far.

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Saturday Links

Posted on March 30, 2024March 29, 2024 by John C. Goodman

How an (apparently) serious study of a vegan diet became fodder for a blatant propaganda film.
Medicaid’s claim denials are higher than in Medicare or commercial insurance.
GAO: Improper payments in Medicare and Medicaid top $100B. The number for Medicare Advantage is $17B – a little more than half of the total for traditional Medicare.
Oprah ignores the downside of weight loss drugs.
Jim Capretta reviews Obamacare – including all the provisions that either didn’t work or have been repealed.
After completely screwing up Covid tests, the FDA now wants control of all other laboratory developed tests.

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