- Yours truly in Epoch Times on the health care positions of the two presidential candidates.
- Vaccines do not cause autism.
- Fewer than 1 in 6 health care workers in hospitals and nursing homes reported getting the COVID-19 booster.
- The Medicare “doctor’s fix” explained.
- Older doctors remain on call for ER duty, while younger doctors stay home with their families.
Category: Medicare
Saturday Links
- Can access to credit affect the quality of health care hospitals deliver?
- Viewpoint: we are at the start of a 4th industrial revolution.
- Medicare Advantage telehealth primary care visits. They are more likely when the beneficiary is frail (39.4%), when the beneficiary is disabled (20.1%) and when low income (8.3%).
- Elevance study: Medicare Advantage saved Medicare as much as $144 billion over ten years. (I’ll have more to say about this study in the near future.)
Friday Links
- “Citi estimates that GLP-1 drugs could boost GDP by 0.5 percent to one percent in rich countries.”
- Why it’s become harder to extend life expectancy: Low hanging fruit is gone, now all we do is find ways to save old people for short periods of time so they just die of something else.
- “In 1940, the average worker retired at age 68 and had a much shorter life expectancy. If people retired today with the same remaining life expectancy as the 1940 retiree, they would retire at about age 77 on average.”
- Quality ratings for Medicare Advantage plans are misleading and unreliable. Ratings for ACOs are even worse.
The Long-Term Care Market is Collapsing; Policy Holders Feel Stranded
In response to something I had written, a man called my office to lecture me about it. He explained that if medical inflation was higher than investment rates of return, it would be nearly impossible for an insurance company to make money selling coverage for long term care. He had a point. Due to the skyrocketing cost of long-term care, many people are finding their long-term care premiums are skyrocketing.