- AAF: tariffs are especially bad for small business.
- Site neural payments would save taxpayers an estimated $150 billion over 10 years.
- Historically, Washington covered about 60% of Medicaid costs. Today, Washington pays nearly 75%.
- Merely requiring states to more frequently check whether current beneficiaries still qualify would save federal taxpayers $115 billion over a decade.
- The prophet’s paradox: The better policymakers manage a potential crisis, the more likely it is that the public will perceive their actions as overreactions.
- Breakthrough: scientists send a quantum message.
- AEI: Fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid and Medicare.
Category: Medicare
Saturday Links – 19 April 2025
- The case against most favored nation drug pricing.
- Study: “Our findings reveal that large minimum wage increases in the 2010s reduced employment among people with severe disabilities.”
- RFK, Jr: rise in autism rates are due to” environmental toxins,” in food and medicine and not “artifacts of better diagnoses, better recognition, or changing diagnostic criteria.”
- Speculation on why there has been an increase in ADHD diagnoses.
- Traditional Medicare’s expenditures for remote physiological monitoring medicine have increased, from $6.8 million in 2019 to $194.5 million in 2023.
- The Trump plan for lower drug prices.
- The case for ivermectin.
Elevance Study: Medicare Advantage is Reducing Overall Medicare Spending
The study found that a 10-percentage-point increase in Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration is associated with a 0.8–1.9 percent decrease in total Medicare spending per capita. This translates to a 10-year savings estimate of approximately $59–$144 billion (in 2021 dollars)….
Source: Health Affairs
WSJ: Republicans Want to End to Abusive State Medicaid ‘Money Laundering’ Games
With a majority in both houses of Congress and a president in the White House, Republicans are talking about putting an end to an abusive Medicaid practice. The Congressional Budget Office estimated such a move would save $600 billion over a decade.