There are no easy solutions to ease the physician shortage. If doctors agreed to work 12-hour days, seven days a week that would about double the capacity. Of course that’s not going to happen. Or doctors could cut down the length of each visit from 10-15 minutes to 5-7 minutes. I doubt that would really work well either. But what if you could pay to jump to the head of the line? Or pay extra to make the line much shorter? That is possible, if not controversial.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Thursday Links
- What the federal government does with your money and why that’s a problem.
- “These studies find that ACO “gross” savings (which do not account for incentive payments to ACOs) are modest to non-existent, while “net” savings (which account for incentive payments) are vanishingly small or actually represent losses to CMS).”
- Against Kennedy’s autism investigation. (Bloomberg)
- Corruption by Centene and other bad actors.
- The “success sequence” for avoiding poverty: graduate from high school, get a full-time job, and wait until marriage to have children – A DEBATE.
Vox Media: Scientists May Have a Cure for Allergies… for a Steep Price
Medical researchers are finding that monoclonal antibodies from a biological drug Xolair (omalizumab) are really good at allergy relief. By good I mean one shot is good for months. It stops allergies at their source, before histamine is released.