A new economic analysis claims to identify future societal costs of kids with behavior problems in kindergarten (summary here). The analysis estimated costs to society in terms of crime, excess health needs and lost productivity.
Category: Health Reform
Sunday Links
- Approximately 99% of new medical devices utilize the 510(k) pathway for speedy FDA approval, but bureaucratic obstacles my slow AI and other innovations.
- The left in Israel demonizes and destroys a right-of-center think tank. Lessons for the US.
- How states scam the feds for Medicaid dollars: in 2023, New Hampshire received $2,123 in DSH grants per poor resident; Wyoming, only $4.
- 40 studies from around the world: learning loss form the pandemic equals about a half a year of schooling. That is equivalent to about 5.5% less life time income.
- The Chinese started lying about Covid almost as soon as Wuhan hospitals started seeing Covid patients.
Saturday Links
- UK hospital: Asking a patient “What is your name?” is “rude, intrusive and insensitive.”
- CDC: No plans for a return of mask mandates.
- AEI study: More home care will not save nursing home costs under Medicaid. IMO, that’s because they aren’t doing it the right way.
- Inconsistent policies toward new drugs affects the development of all drugs.
- Haley: The Senate is a “privileged nursing home.”
CMS to Boost Nursing Home Staffing Requirements to Impossible Levels
Kaiser Health News reported that the Biden Administration is proposing new staffing standards for nursing homes. The new standards were prompted by assumptions that inadequate staffing led to the death of nearly 200,000 nursing home residents from Covid. I’m not convinced these data points are related but that never stopped government officials from using a natural disaster to boost regulations.