- Paragon: The lifetime benefits the average senior will receive from Medicare will soon reach $750,000, after paying only $200,000 in taxes.
- Should pooled have a property/privacy right in their own brain waves? (NYT)
- How restrictive are the networks of Medicare Advantage plans?
- Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of the U.S. population as a whole.
- Trend in state health reforms: regulating instead of markets.
- Why does mortality go down in recessions?
Category: Health Reform
STAT News: Nonprofit Hospitals Should Pay Taxes on Profits
The phrase nonprofit does not mean nonprofit organizations do not earn profits. Any organization that loses money every single year will soon go out of business. At the very least nonprofit organizations must break even. Nonprofit status is a tax election. It means in theory the organization is supposed to plow all profits back into a charitable mission, rather than distribute profits to shareholders (of which there are none in a nonprofit organization). In reality nonprofit hospitals plow most of their profits into expansion.
Friday Links
- Why a nursing home staff mandate will hurt patients.
- Trends in health care: private equity, M & A and digital health.
- Cato study: charter schools improve reading scores and reduce absenteeism at traditional public schools.
- How to increase US economic growth and why that matters.
- Biden has raised more money from tariffs than Trump did.
Could Racial Health Disparities All Be in Our Genes?
According to the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) racism has caused a pronounced negative impact on the health of minorities and communities of color. Many sociologists and public health experts blame racism and the resulting so-called social determinants of health for lower health status among black Americans. The social determinants of health are a big area of research nowadays.