Category: Medicare
Wednesday Links
- Harvard Study: Medicare could save $3.6 billion a year by taking advantage of Mark Cuban’s new mail order pharmacy.
- Nearly 1 in 4 women in the United States will have an abortion by the age of 45; and almost 93 percent are performed before the 13th week.
- “The greatest heist of American taxpayer dollars in history.” They’re talking about Covid money lost to fraud.
- In Texas, physicians who earn a “gold card” no longer have to endure the hassles of prior authorization.
- The part of covid that’s not over: every large city is below 50% of its office space being occupied.
Public Health Experts: America has an Eating, Drinking and Lack of Exercise Problem
America has a collective drinking problem. And an eating problem. This is all made worse by Americans propensity to sit at home watching TV or playing video games. A recent study has found that deaths from alcoholic cirrhosis have more than tripled in 20 years. In 1999 alcoholic cirrhosis killed 6,007 Americans or about 3.3 per 100,000 adults. By 2019 the death rate had risen to 10.6 per 100,000. Keep in mind this is only for adults aged 25 to 85+
Friday Links
- AMA To FDA: Allow OTC Birth Control Pill. Something we have favored for years, but don’t stop there!
- AMA rejects economics: calls for a higher minimum wage. (Pardon us for thinking that the OTC position was based on sound economic reasoning.)
- How manufacturers manipulate the rules to avert competition from generic competitors – the case of asthma inhalers.
- How Biden’s policies have undermined his previous vice presidential goal of a “moon shot” to eradicate cancer.