Asian patients were 13.3 percentage points more likely to have their claim denials reversed and Hispanic patients were 5.7 percent more likely than non-Hispanic Whites. AI program displays mathematical genius. “That’s frightening,” one mathematician said. HT: Tyler CBO: Immigration since 2021 has cost state and local governments $10.1billion. US R&D tax incentives: we are “roughly 20 percent…
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- Have we turned the corner on drug overdose deaths?
- Montana expands “right to try” – not just to the terminally ill.
- “A [family] in London with two children under five is better off earning £99,999 than £149,000.”
- Medicaid physician fees were approximately 71 percent of Medicare physician fees in 2024, including 69 percent for office visits, 68 percent for hospital and emergency department visits.
- As states are unwinding their Medicaid populations (from Covid levels), total drug prescriptions are unchanged: the drop in prescriptions paid for by Medicaid or CHIP has been mostly offset mostly offset by an increase in commercial-paid prescriptions.
Tuesday Links
- Low-income adults are more likely to use low-valued care and less likely to use high-valued care.
- “If you invested a thousand dollars in the S&P 500 back in 1964, you’d now have several million dollars. If you invested it in Buffett’s company instead, you’d now have over a billion dollars.”
- “If Trump mandates that drugmakers have to charge the same price in America that they do in poor countries, they’ll probably just mostly raise prices in the poor countries instead of lowering them in America.”
- “Any theory of what is wrong with American health care is true because American health care is wrong in every possible way.”
- “The measles outbreak in Canada is even bigger than ours; in Europe, they’ve gone from 127 cases in 2022 to more than 35,000 in 2024. Routine vaccination rates went down almost everywhere.”