- Yours truly in Epoch Times on the health care positions of the two presidential candidates.
- Vaccines do not cause autism.
- Fewer than 1 in 6 health care workers in hospitals and nursing homes reported getting the COVID-19 booster.
- The Medicare “doctor’s fix” explained.
- Older doctors remain on call for ER duty, while younger doctors stay home with their families.
Category: Health Insurance
Buyer Beware: Some Dentists Profit by Replacing Healthy Teeth with Expensive Implants
Most dentists advise that implants are a last resort when a tooth cannot be saved due to infection. Neither are implants maintenance free. Real human teeth are always better than metal posts tied to a fake tooth. It’s like other areas of life, be skeptical if it sounds too good to be true and get second opinions before agreeing to expensive procedures.
Saturday Links
- Can access to credit affect the quality of health care hospitals deliver?
- Viewpoint: we are at the start of a 4th industrial revolution.
- Medicare Advantage telehealth primary care visits. They are more likely when the beneficiary is frail (39.4%), when the beneficiary is disabled (20.1%) and when low income (8.3%).
- Elevance study: Medicare Advantage saved Medicare as much as $144 billion over ten years. (I’ll have more to say about this study in the near future.)
Friday Links
- “Citi estimates that GLP-1 drugs could boost GDP by 0.5 percent to one percent in rich countries.”
- Why it’s become harder to extend life expectancy: Low hanging fruit is gone, now all we do is find ways to save old people for short periods of time so they just die of something else.
- “In 1940, the average worker retired at age 68 and had a much shorter life expectancy. If people retired today with the same remaining life expectancy as the 1940 retiree, they would retire at about age 77 on average.”
- Quality ratings for Medicare Advantage plans are misleading and unreliable. Ratings for ACOs are even worse.