- Can access to credit affect the quality of health care hospitals deliver?
- Viewpoint: we are at the start of a 4th 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.)
Category: Single-Payer/Medicare-for-All
The Long-Term Care Market is Collapsing; Policy Holders Feel Stranded
In response to something I had written, a man called my office to lecture me about it. He explained that if medical inflation was higher than investment rates of return, it would be nearly impossible for an insurance company to make money selling coverage for long term care. He had a point. Due to the skyrocketing cost of long-term care, many people are finding their long-term care premiums are skyrocketing.
What’s Wrong with Medicaid?
Medicaid currently costs the federal government $800 billion annually, and according to official projections, its expenses are expected to surpass $1 trillion by 2028—a rate of growth that far outstrips the overall economy or family incomes. Research suggests that health care resources are being diverted away from traditional enrollees and to expansion enrollees in expansion states.
Source: Gary D. Alexander and Liam Sigaud (Paragon Health Institute) at RealClear Health.
Saturday Links
- Medicare Part D Market: Average premiums are up 57%; average plan choices are down 53%; some state premiums increases are north of 100% (CA, NY, NV).
- Kamala’s home health care benefit: The nation already spends more than $130 billion on home care and $190 billion on nursing home care. Having Medicare assume these costs, would increase Medicare spending by 14 percent – assuming no increase in demand.
- Why Trump’s trade ideas don’t add up.
- The seven battleground states have less than 17% of the nation’s population, but they are on track to collect 44% of the green new deal (IRA) money.
- CBO: the 10-year cost of Medicare coverage of anti-obesity medications is $35.5 billion. Health benefits are uncertain.