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Category: Medicare

Thursday Links

Posted on December 4, 2025December 3, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • In Madagascar, lemurs are a delicacy – to dine on.
  • Ultra processed foods are bad for the stomach and the intestines. (NYT)
  • There are 3.2 million home health aides and personal care aides on the job last year, up from 1.4 million a decade ago – one-third of them are immigrants.
  • What Britain will pay for drugs: about $26,500 to $40,000 for a healthy year of life saved.
  • Why Social Security and Medicare need immigrants:

If all immigration were stopped, America’s working-age population would fall by about 5% through 2035 … while the number of seniors older than 80 — who generate much larger bills per person for Medicare … — will double.

  • Jeff Goldsmith abandons Medicare Advantage.
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The Real Reason Weight-Loss Drugs Have Fallen in Price

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Devon Herrick

While the Trump Administration takes a victory lap celebrating its latest strong-arm negotiating, that does not tell the whole story. Drugmakers would rather not have Trump as an enemy, but no company gives away tens of billions of dollars annually if they do not have to. The reason drugmakers agreed to deep price concessions is due to growing competition in the GLP-1 weight-loss market.

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Monday Links

Posted on December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Germany spends almost two thirds of government revenue on social welfare. For the US, it’s more than half.
  • How Medicare Advantage risk adjustment actually works.
  • “Seventy-nine percent of Americans say housing costs are “too high” or “way too high.” Sixty-two percent say it’s become harder to find housing they can afford. But only 24 percent think building more housing in their community would lower costs.”  (NYT)
  • “Mothers who received doula care had a nearly 50 percent lower risk of cesarean sections, which can lead to infections, blood clots and potentially dangerous bleeding. Mothers receiving the care also had a 29 percent lower risk of preterm birth and were 46 percent more likely to attend a postpartum checkup.”
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Friday Links

Posted on November 28, 2025November 27, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Of nearly 1,000 people diagnosed with lung cancer, 65% would not have qualified for screening under today’s U.S. Preventive Services Task Force criteria.
  • Congress seems ready to extend hospitals at home under Medicare.
  • Can listening to music prevent dementia?
  • A “p factor,” is claimed to be a common factor in various forms of mental illness, analogous to the “g factor” for general intelligence.
  • Nine of the 10 most expensive cities are in blue states.
  • Thoughts on Thanksgiving and turkeys.
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