- AAF: tariffs are especially bad for small business.
- Site neural payments would save taxpayers an estimated $150 billion over 10 years.
- Historically, Washington covered about 60% of Medicaid costs. Today, Washington pays nearly 75%.
- Merely requiring states to more frequently check whether current beneficiaries still qualify would save federal taxpayers $115 billion over a decade.
- The prophet’s paradox: The better policymakers manage a potential crisis, the more likely it is that the public will perceive their actions as overreactions.
- Breakthrough: scientists send a quantum message.
- AEI: Fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid and Medicare.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Is the Doctor-Patient Relationship Declining?
Today about three-quarters of physicians have a boss. They are employees of hospitals, private equity-owed group practices, and even work for retail clinics. The trust doctors and patients may have shared in 1963 is eroding due to insurance coverage, time constraints and even perverse medical norms.
Thursday Links
- Claim from new paper, via Alex Tabarrok: “Prohibiting the FDA from regulating e-cigarettes reduced smoking attributable mortality by nearly 10% on average each year from 2011-2019 for a total savings of some 677,000 life-years, or approximately 1/3 the estimated benefit of early HIV/AIDS drugs through year 2000.”
- Results from California: a $20 minimum wage really does cause people to lose their jobs.
- What UnitedHealth executives get paid.
- NIH Director: Trump’s anti DEI directive does not prevent research on minority health problems.
- RFK Jr.’s “ban” on food dyes is actually “voluntary.”