- Why did virtually every country in the world respond to Covid in the same way – using tactics we now know to be wrong?
- Also, from David Friedman: it’s not clear that the costs of global warming outweigh the benefits.
- Five medical breakthroughs in 2024. HT: Tyler
- U of Chicago study: “The dominant change in the tax and transfer system over the past fifty years has been an increase in transfers to the bottom [of the income distribution].” Note: this period covers all the Republican tax bills plus welfare reform.
- Patients with lower socioeconomic status wait longer for health care.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links – 5 December 2024
- To do want he wants to do, RFK Jr will be head of the wrong agency.
- More than 50% of the AMA’s revenue in 2023, or $266 million, came from a budget category that includes medical billing codes. (Statnews)
- From 1997 to 2011, 85% of the increase in real per-capita Medicare spending was on newly created procedure codes.
- Final House Select Committee report: Covid likely came for the Wuhan lab.
- More than one-third of 100 hospitals reviewed did not properly post machine-readable pricing data, as required by law.
Thursday Links – 28 November 2024
- The cost of regulation over the last three administrations.
- Matt Ridley: How “experts” led to the rise of RFK.
- All that’s gone wrong at Scientific American.
- Rutgers study finds that DEI programs focused on “anti-racist” and “anti-oppressive” ideology tend to do the exact opposite. (New York Sun)
- Paragon: Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk — could save $2.1 trillion over a decade by making changes to Medicaid and Medicare by:
limiting the federal contribution to state Medicaid programs, axing the Medicaid provider tax safe harbor, imposing Medicaid work requirements, rescinding the Biden administration’s Medicaid rules, limiting Medigap cost-sharing, imposing Medicare site-neutral policies, boosting Medicare Advantage, eliminating, Medicare bad debt, reforming 340B, stopping the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, and capping the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance.
Thursday Links
- The extraordinary success of vaccines.
- Who should pay for really expensive drugs?
- Trump-era efforts to accelerate vaccine development (Operation Warp Speed) should focus on a new target: bird flu.
- Why do doctors win most of the arbitrations created by the No Surprise (Billing) Act? Because they have better arguments.