- Study: Residents of the European Union and Britain are twice as likely to die prematurely from exposure to gas stove pollutants than from a car crash.
- American life expectancy is rising again.
- Chris Jacobs: Health reforms for a Republican Congress.
- With some exceptions, government health program cannot deny coverage for a drug just because the social costs are higher than the social benefits.
- Medicare price controls on durable medical equipment have led to fewer new products, less innovation.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- If a “race neutral” standard were used, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Black Americans would be classified under the newer race-neutral equation as having more severe emphysema, greater medical impairment, more occupational disqualifications, and higher disability payments because of their newly classified lung disease.
- Following the passage of the No Surprise Act, some surprise bills are costing insurers more than before the act was passed, possibly by as much as 50 percent above prevailing in-network rates.
- Oracle’s AI backed Electronic Medical Record system can draft clinical documentation, propose next steps like lab tests and follow-up visits, and pull data from notes to automate coding.
- US Nonprofit hospitals have widely varying criteria on who qualifies for free and discounted charity care.
Thursday Links
- How Republicans would change the CDC.
- The effect of one of the eat-your-spinach SS reforms: raising the normal retirement age.
- Since the passage of IRA, drug companies have discontinued an additional 36 research and over 21 drug development programs. In oncology alone, over a dozen drug development programs have been discontinued.
- The Biden-Harris administration wasted nearly one billion on covid misinformation
Thursday Links
- Anti vaxxers take to the road.
- Infections can increase the risk of dementia.
- Some businesses have a rare license from the DEA to grow otherwise illegal crops (like cannabis and opioids) for use in research and the manufacture of federally approved medicines. (NYT)
- Illegal immigration under Biden/Harris is costing Medicaid $16.2 billion.
- Pharma companies directing patients to select telehealth platforms, offering instant access to clinicians who can prescribe their drugs. (Statnews)