Category: Single-Payer/Medicare-for-All
WSJ: Insurers Deny 850 Million Claims Annually, 1% are Appealed with 75% Success
The Wall Street Journal reports that health insurers deny 850 million claims a year. The small number of people who appeal often win.
Friday Links
- Hooper’s Impossibility Theorem.
- Although the federal tax and transfer system is progressive, state and local tax and transfer systems are close to proportional, on average.
- Health care from Amazon for $9 a month.
- Trump’s first few days.
- Half a billion dollars advertises a largely cosmetic drug.
- Robots in nursing homes.
- On average, a typical enrollee can expect to save nearly $140 per month in out-of-pocket costs by picking a Medicare Advantage plan over traditional Medicare.
Saturday Links
- Trump executive orders pertaining to health care.
- RFK, Jr: “I’ll get processed food out of school lunch immediately,”
- “On average, a typical [Medicare Advantage] enrollee could expect to save 18-24% on out-of-pocket costs by picking an MA plan over traditional Medicare—an amount equivalent to nearly $140 per month.”
- Anthony Fauci, pardoned by Biden, loses security protection under Trump.
- Medicare Advantage plans managed by physician groups are more efficient and of higher quality than other MA plans.
- Debate: does marriage make men and women happier and healthier?
- Census data reveal there are 31.8 million “excess” bedrooms in American homes.