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Posted on November 16, 2024November 15, 2024 by John C. Goodman

An idea from Jim Capretta:

Insurers (including Medicare and Medicaid) should be required to let their enrollees keep 100 percent of the savings from price shopping for care. So, for instance, if a patient opts for a surgeon charging $4,000 for a procedure, and the insurer would normally pay $5,000 for the service, the patient should get to keep the $1,000 from choosing the lower-priced option.

This is much easier to do with a a Heath Savings Account

Out-of-pocket costs are 19% to 24% higher in traditional Medicare than they are in Medicare Advantage.
Medicare Advantage is saving taxpayers money.
Why the left hates voter ID in one photo.

Saturday Links

Posted on November 9, 2024November 9, 2024 by John C. Goodman

The downside of more screening.
Nine health reform ideas for Trump.
Facebook censors are going wild.
A majority of adult Americans have at least one chronic condition. More than one-fourth of us have two or more.
Out-of-pocket costs were 18–24 percent lower in Medicare Advantage than traditional Medicare, from 2014 through 2019.

Saturday Links

Posted on November 2, 2024November 1, 2024 by John C. Goodman

Can access to credit affect the quality of health care hospitals deliver?
Viewpoint: we are at the start of a 4^th industrial revolution.
Medicare Advantage telehealth primary care visits. They are more likely when the beneficiary is frail (39.4%), when the beneficiary is disabled (20.1%) and when low income (8.3%).
Elevance study: Medicare Advantage saved Medicare as much as $144 billion over ten years. (I’ll have more to say about this study in the near future.)

Saturday Links

Posted on October 26, 2024October 26, 2024 by John C. Goodman

In most developed countries, out-of-pocket-spending on health care as a percent of household income is higher than it is in the US.
Dr. Marty Makary on four health myths.
Study: Expanding access to weight loss drugs could prevent more than 40,000 deaths a year in the United States.
Researchers refuse to publish their own study showing that puberty blockers did not improve the mental health of children.
A secret shopper survey called the first 100 doctors on Anthem’s directory. Only seven out of the 100 actually accepted the insurance and would take new patients.
How often Nobel Prize winning economists have been wrong about national politics.
Kotlikoff: Ten Medicare mistakes to avoid.