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Monday Links

Posted on July 3, 2023July 3, 2023 by John C. Goodman

93% of cancer centers report a shortage of carboplatin and 70% report shortages for cisplatin.
Up to 500,000 U.S. cancer patients could be at risk of having their treatment disrupted. (WSJ)
WHO is about to declare that Aspartame, a common artificial sweetener, is “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” The back and forth on this issue never seems to end.
Expected lifetime out-of-pocket spending by Medicare enrollees: $157,500 (Fidelity) to $197,000 (Employee Benefit Research Institute). (NYT)
A single year with a grossly ineffective teacher can cost a classroom of students $1.4 million in lifetime earnings. Yet it can take 10 years and $250,000 to $450,000 to fire a lousy California teacher, and fewer than 0.002% are dismissed for unprofessional conduct or poor performance. (WSJ)

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Tuesday Links

Posted on June 27, 2023June 27, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Gorman and Goodman: Texas was right not to expand Medicaid.
Schaeffer Center: Medicare Advantage enrolls lower-spending people, leading to large overpayments.
Why DC is so dangerous: “the overwhelming preponderance of lethal violence is carried out with illegal weapons” and “most gun arrests don’t lead to charges.”
Prenatal tests: Very accurate for common genetic disorders like Down syndrome. But for rare diseases, the positive results were wrong 80 percent to 93 percent of the time
Janitor cut the power to a lab freezer, destroying decades’ worth of research materials valued at nearly $1 million.

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Friday Links

Posted on June 23, 2023June 22, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Woke ideology is subverting biology.
About 40 percent of those surveyed said they had delayed or gone without care in the last year because of the expense.
Cassidy: Sanders is prioritizing partisan labor legislation (that will never pass the Senate) over bipartisan health legislation (that could pass. (InsideHealthPolicy – gated)
Medicare reform failures: “While MACRA’s goal of moving Medicare beyond fee-for-service and towards paying for value was reasonable and broadly popular, its … alternative payment models have not fostered quality improvement … and … have also failed to deliver savings.”
Effect of Lockdowns plus teacher unions: 13-year-olds record lowest test scores in decades.

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Thursday Links

Posted on June 22, 2023June 21, 2023 by John C. Goodman

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