- Study: MA enrollees have over 70% fewer hospital readmissions and 25% fewer preventable inpatient admissions. MA exhibits lower rates of inappropriate medication use and comparable rates of medication adherence.
- How AI will change education: tutors work better than classroom instruction; but while human tutors are expensive, AI tutors may be cheap.
- Prices for new US drugs rose 35% in 2023, more than the previous year. Is this what Biden is going to run on?
- Cato video on telehealth.
- More on “if the government doesn’t regulate surgery, why does it regulate new drugs?”
Category: Health Reform
Federal Agencies Easy to Scam for Ineligible Health Benefits
Federal government bureaucrats love health insurance. It’s almost like a religion. They believe in health insurance for its own sake. If you pay $500 a month for health coverage that you don’t use, that’s fine because someone else in your risk pool will use it. It’s like going to church. You should just do it and the feds encourage it.
Thursday Links
- A reminder: The Cuban health care system is far from the best in the world and nothing about it warrants extraordinary praise.
- “In the past few weeks, there’s been an explosion of new tools for programming DNA and RNA.”
- “We’re entering a golden age of engineering biology.”
- “Once groundbreaking Covid-19 vaccines became available a year into the pandemic, rich countries looked out for themselves and poorer countries were largely left behind.”
- AI can handle customer calls better than humans.
Wednesday Links
- Claim: Sociopaths are not all bad. HT: Tyler
- Leap year explained.
- How the Paragon Health Institute proposes to reform Medicare Advantage.
- How the Alliance of Community Health Plans proposes to reform Medicare Advantage. Some of the recommendations are very similar.
- About 86 million U.S. adults age 20 or older have total cholesterol levels. Almost half of U.S. adults (45.5%) who could benefit from cholesterol medicine are not taking it.