- Families making as much as $600,000 can get an Obamacare subsidy. The entire W&M hearing with Sec. Becerra is either very funny or very sad, depending on how the spirit moves you.
- The federal government spent a total of $4.1 trillion on transfer payments to individuals in FY 2022. By comparison, the government spent $2.8 trillion on these programs in 2019.
- Cowen: Would an AI Pause in the US open the door to other countries? What if it stifles the cure for cancer?
- GFPT-4 fails the sophomore econ exam.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) leads a bipartisan group of House members who want to bring drug production onshore.
- Warren piles on — attacking MA plans. Private insurers have a “long history of exploiting the government out of billions of dollars,” she says.
- Against the “AI pause.”
- Yglesias: The problem with the media is the audience.
- Does Medicaid expansion reduce employment?
Thursday Links
- Bill Gates: AI will revolutionize health care in the third world.
- Why do physicians “care” about their patients, any more than scientists care about a lab rat? Should they?
- HHS: surprise billing arbitrators are being swamped with claims. That’s because the law was poorly implemented.
- California’s highest concentrations of electric cars — between 10.9% and 14.2% of all vehicles — are in ZIP codes where residents are at least 75% white and Asian.
Thursday Links
- Congressional health program suffers “significant data breach” affecting “hundreds” of lawmakers, staff.
- Bill Frist: the benefit from implementing value-based payment models has been modest, and so far has not resulted in significant savings to payers, providers, or patients. No surprise: they were all designed by the buyers of care – something that happens in no other market.
- “We are now 11 years into the largest epidemic of adolescent mental illness ever recorded.”
- Site neutral payments (independent of hospital, clinic, doctor’s office, etc.) would save Medicare $158 billion over ten years.
- About half of the governmental public health workforce left their jobs between 2017 and 2021.