- One in five Americans has turned to alternative medicine in place of conventional medicine at some point.
- Sweden is offering $34,000 to immigrants who agree to leave the country. (NYT)
- Ezra Klein explains to Jon Stewart all the regulatory obstacles to getting rural broadband.
- The loss of GDP from Trump’s Wednesday tariff hikes is more than the gain from extending the TCJA tax bill.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors in 10 Years
Physicians used to be patients’ primary source of health information. Nowadays, people look up diseases and conditions online, learning more in a few minutes than their doctors would ever have time to explain. More than half of Americans (58.5%) used the Internet to look up heath information in 2022. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make diagnosis even easier. Microsoft founder, Bill Gates even thinks AI will be able to replace your doctor in 10 years.
Read more at:
- People: Bill Gates: AI Will Replace Doctors, Teachers in Next 10 Years
- Harvard Magazine: Bill Gates on AI and Innovation
Friday Links
- 400 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with some form of long Covid. (NYT)
- Congressional Republican are busy taking down Biden Administration regulations.
- Guess who is one of the largest users of the H-2B temporary visa program for seasonal workers? Donald Trump and his resort properties.
- The Biden Pill Penalty: shots or infusions can be in the market for 13 years before being subjected to government price setting, while cutting-edge ‘small molecule’ medicines, which typically come in pill or capsule form, are subject to price setting after only 9 years on the market.
- Haislmaier: If patients secure a service below a reference price, they should be able to deposit the savings in an HSA. (Something I think we recommended about a decade ago.)
- California to spend $8.4 billion this year on health care for illegal aliens.