- White House: productivity growth over the next 10 years will be 2.9 percent. CBO: it will be 1.4 percent.
- Trump’s most important health reform.
- Cato: Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration.
- In 2021, CMS processed over 1.1 billion Medicare fee-for-service claims and made payments to 1.5 million institutional providers and clinicians.
- FTC: the hospital marketplace in 99 percent of the nation’s 389 metropolitan statistical areas is “highly concentrated.”
Category: Medicare
WSJ: 80 is the new 60 (Social Security and Medicare are Really in Trouble)
Recently I read about how people aged faster and looked older for their age back when I was young. It is not just because everyone looked old when we were kids. There are a variety of reasons for this, including better health, and a lower disease burden. And it was not just the poor who aged faster and whose life ended early, although wealth is generally associated with health.
Saturday Links – 4 April 2026
- How China went capitalist.
- “How is it that the working population is increasingly burdened by health insurance premiums and poorer coverage, while the senior population is shielded from cost increases even as Medicare coverage has improved?”
- New Penn-Wharton study shows per-capita federal spending on each age group:
- Seniors: $43,700
- Children and young adults: $4,300.
- There are three types of primary care. The most wasteful: prevention and screening services.
- Californians pay billions of dollars a year in fuel taxes and vehicle fees to maintain the second worst highway system in the nation.
Medicare Hospice Fraud is Rampant, in California and Elsewhere
House Republicans are going after rampant hospice fraud in the Medicare program in California. The only problem is that they are targeting a deep blue state rather than fraud in all 50 states. Hospice fraud and abuse is widespread in the Medicare program.