- The main effect of affirmative action: discrimination against Asians.
- Trump announces in deals with nine companies to cut prices on drugs that treat Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hepatitis B and C, HIV and certain cancers.
- Study: Most psychiatric disorders are not genetically separate diseases. Instead, they share a large amount of the same genetic risk, which clusters into a small number of underlying genetic “families.”
- Why health care needs AI: Since the turn of the century, hospital prices are up 271%; computer software is down 73.3%.
- Why estimates of a declining fertility rate might be wrong.
- A decade ago, about 40 artificial intelligence systems were approved for clinical use. Today, more than 1,200 are FDA-approved.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Saturday Links
- What to know about Food Stamps.
- Doctor v. Doctor: Medical wars patients never hear about.
- Trump EO: marijuana to be available for medical research.
- Obamacare supporters don’t seem to understand the MLR regulations they created.
- If you brain is preserved after your death, how likely is it that your thoughts will be preserved?
- HHS: No Medicare, Medicaid to hospitals offering gender care to minors.
WSJ: Mothers are Pushing Back Against the Stigma of Child Estrangement
Some estranged parents are pushing back against what they perceive to be unreasonable demands from their kids that led to estrangement. A support group community has sprung up on TikTok, Instagram and elsewhere, where estranged parents can commiserate with others sharing the same fate.
Thursday Links
- Humana publishes its own research, when it’s good for Humana. (Statnews)
- Why economists should listen to Scott Sumner.
- Why it’s hard to distinguish high-valued care from low-valued care in Medicare: patients are different. (Does this problem really cover 25% of Part B spending?)
- Among the almost 20 million people who have been disenrolled from Medicaid, nearly 1 in 4 report that they have not transitioned to other sources of coverage.
- The growth of national health care spending exceeds 6 percent and is projected to remain close to that level for a decade.