Private equity investors have been buying up thousands of health care businesses across the country. This includes everything from dermatology practices, to gastroenterology, to air ambulance services. If you seek care at an emergency room, there is a good chance that you will be treated by a physician employed by a staffing firm backed by private equity. Physicians…
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Wednesday Links
- Medicaid enrollment to top 100 million as early as next month.
- Catholic Charities and other NGOs have been transporting illegal immigrants all over the country, with taxpayer funding. Who knew?
- What’s in the Omnibus: ending the pandemic policy that prohibited states from taking people off Medicaid, easing Medicare payment cuts for doctors and potentially extending telehealth policies for two years.
- Health care rationing: CVS is limiting shoppers to just two items of children’s pain and fever medicines, both in-store and online, while Walgreens is restricting online shoppers to six items. (Bloomberg)
- Global coal consumption is set to match its all-time high, because of environmentalists’ aversion to much cleaner natural gas.
- Yglesias: Alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana.
Tuesday Links
- Evidence against The Great Barrington Declaration’s idea of focused protection.
- The feds are cracking down on Medicare Advantage plans.
- CDC: Flu season appears to be normal, despite the media hype.
- CTUP study: Government payments and free health care benefits can pay more than the annual equivalent of a $100,000 job in three states, and the equivalent of an $80,000 a year job in 13 states.
WSJ: Remote Mental Health Counseling Suffers from Growing Pains
The Wall Street Journal ran an article on The Failed Promise of Online Mental-Health Treatment (gated on one device but I was able to read it for free on another). During the pandemic lockdown there were few options available for counseling at a time when many peoples’ mental health was taking a hit.