- Hooper’s Impossibility Theorem.
- Although the federal tax and transfer system is progressive, state and local tax and transfer systems are close to proportional, on average.
- Health care from Amazon for $9 a month.
- Trump’s first few days.
- Half a billion dollars advertises a largely cosmetic drug.
- Robots in nursing homes.
- On average, a typical enrollee can expect to save nearly $140 per month in out-of-pocket costs by picking a Medicare Advantage plan over traditional Medicare.
Category: Medicare
Thursday Links
- Argument: RFK, Jr. is being unfairly blamed for the measles outbreak in Samoa.
- RFK, Jr. says he is open to seizing drug patents.
- Some positive aspects of Medicare drug price negotiation.
- The changing definition of obesity.
- Study: reference pricing could save state employee health plans $7.1 billion a year.
- Reference pricing update: In Oklahoma, 99.3 percent of hospitals and 80.0 percent of physicians participate. South Carolina has 100 percent hospital participation and 2more than 99 percent of physicians.
Tuesday Links – 28 January 2025
- Disruptive innovation in health care.
- In response to the payment change, annual incident dementia diagnosis rates in Medicare Advantage increased by 11.5 percent relative to traditional Medicare.
- Why government administered pricing of drugs isn’t working.
- What gerrymandering produces: Just 8 percent of congressional races and 7 percent of state legislative races were decided by fewer than five percentage points. (NYT)
Saturday Links
- Trump executive orders pertaining to health care.
- RFK, Jr: “I’ll get processed food out of school lunch immediately,”
- “On average, a typical [Medicare Advantage] enrollee could expect to save 18-24% on out-of-pocket costs by picking an MA plan over traditional Medicare—an amount equivalent to nearly $140 per month.”
- Anthony Fauci, pardoned by Biden, loses security protection under Trump.
- Medicare Advantage plans managed by physician groups are more efficient and of higher quality than other MA plans.
- Debate: does marriage make men and women happier and healthier?
- Census data reveal there are 31.8 million “excess” bedrooms in American homes.