- Tyler Cowen: “Classical liberals are increasingly religious.” I don’t think this is new. I think it has been true for a long time. But I don’t know why.
- ACO failures: study of Medicare patients with depression or anxiety finds a 24 percent decline in treatment visits and no discernible improvements at twelve months after enrolling in an ACO.
- Syphilis cases in newborns is ten times what it was a decade ago. In 40% of the cases, the mother had no prenatal care.
- Infant mortality rises for the first time in 20 years.
Category: Medicare
Wednesday Links
- Why Medicare’s negotiated prices may not help patients. Formularies, step therapy and more.
- Blood supply has steadily decreased for over a decade, reaching critically low levels in the past two years.
- Another study on site neutral payments: Medicare Part B spending would have been $7,750 less for a hypothetical breast cancer patient.
- Opinion: Bidenomics is driving up the cost of health care.
Monday Links
- The power to define poverty is the power to spend money – a lot of money.
- Mark Pauly questions the wisdom of the GOP’s Medicare reforms requiring price transparency and site neutral payments.
- Survey: Patients find the health care system confusing. They needed a survey to know that?
- Why haven’t we made more progress with personalized (gene-based) medicine?
- “[W]e argue that mink, more so than any other farmed species, pose a risk for the emergence of future disease outbreaks and the evolution of future pandemics.”
Friday Links
- Even moderate drinking can interfere with your sex life.(NYT)
- Medicare is spending $800 million a year on stents that are unnecessary and put patients at risk of complications like stroke, heart attack and death.
- Yglesias takes a critical look at the idea that non-pharmaceutical Covid interventions didn’t work.
- Scott Atlas: What to do in the next pandemic.
- Trump’s plan to bring back mental institutions for the homeless is serious.
- Why is the MSM ignoring 400 American “hostages” in Gaza?