- To do want he wants to do, RFK Jr will be head of the wrong agency.
- More than 50% of the AMA’s revenue in 2023, or $266 million, came from a budget category that includes medical billing codes. (Statnews)
- From 1997 to 2011, 85% of the increase in real per-capita Medicare spending was on newly created procedure codes.
- Final House Select Committee report: Covid likely came for the Wuhan lab.
- More than one-third of 100 hospitals reviewed did not properly post machine-readable pricing data, as required by law.
Category: Health Reform
Harris Rosen, RIP
Harris Rosen was the first business owner in the US who did what every other owner would like to do but hasn’t: provide his employees with high quality care at half the cost.
Under the circumstances, you’d expect Rosen’s health care costs to be sky high. Instead, on a per capita basis they’re about 40 percent less than the national average—despite the fact that Rosen Hotel employees are generally older and in poorer health than the general population, have a higher percentage of at-risk pregnancies and include an above-average number of diabetics.More.
Wednesday Links
- A theory of why there are food deserts. (speculative)
- Tyler Cowen’s skepticism about assisted dying in the UK.
- Why Bernie Sanders is wrong: 60% of Americans do not live “paycheck-to-paycheck.”
- Every ethnic group believes that America is “the greatest country on earth,” including 75% of Hispanic and 58% of blacks. The only group that doesn’t believe that are white liberal elites (31%).
- The downside of weight loss drugs: to keep your weight off, you have to stay on the drugs forever.
Why Electronic Medical Records are a Failure of Epic Proportions
Some of the benefits of electronic medical records were supposed to be better care, more efficient care and better care coordination. It didn’t happen that way. In a (now) 5-year old analysis Kaiser Family Foundation discussed what went wrong: The article, Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong outlines an all too familiar tale.