Sen. Markey is particularly angry about Steward Health Care’s bankruptcy filing. An investment firm owns 31 Seward hospitals, many of which are in Massachusetts. The perverse incentives in health care are the primary problem. However, that is not something Sen. Markey proposes to address in his Health Over Wealth Act.
Category: Health Reform
The AMA Can’t Figure Out How to Squeeze Telemedicine into an Outmoded System of Payment Codes
The revisions to remote physiologic monitoring and remote therapeutic monitoring codes were considered at last week’s meeting of the American Medical Association’s CPT Editorial Panel, which includes health care professionals and representatives from medical specialty societies, hospitals, payers, and government. After discussion, the panel decided to postpone a vote on the merits of the revisions while various updates proposed during the meeting could be incorporated. The next editorial panel meeting is in September.
Source: STAT: Health Tech
Brown v. The Board
Jason Riley in the WSJ:
Warren’s claim that segregated schools produced inferior educational results was wrong when he wrote it in 1954. That year, an all-black high school within walking distance of the Supreme Court building sent a higher percentage of students to college than any white public high school in Washington.
[On] the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision… new research confirms a startling trend: School segregation has been getting steadily worse over the last three decades.
Friday Links
- Arnold Kling: The real cause of the 2008 financial crisis: bad government policies.
- Instead of raising taxes on the rich, why don’t we eliminate spending on the rich?
- Why not use $90 billion in unspent covid money to reduce the $1.7 trillion deficit?
- How studies of Covid vaccine effectiveness have been manipulated.
- Are psychedelics a solution for chronic pain?
- UK refuses to sign onto global vaccine treaty.
- In 2020, over 260,000 immigrants with undergraduate health care degrees such as nursing were underemployed.