- Why is the left still telling lies about Michael Brown? (Yglesias)
- I agree with Greg Mankiw: Its lonely out there. “Socially liberal and fiscally conservative” is the least common combination in American politics. The typical swing voter is instead “socially conservative and fiscally liberal.” (NYT)
- CBO: federal spending will exceed federal revenues for as far as the eye can see.
- Is the ivory-billed woodpecker really extinct? The debate rages.
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- Around 50% of patents linked to drugs approved by the FDA directly cite NIH-funded research.
- The case for work requirements included in the GOP’s Debt limit bill.
- Gramm and Solon: the case for the Republican Debt-Ceiling bill is strong.
- Big Brother strikes again. CMS: no more mail delivery for cancer drugs. (InsideHealthPolicy – gated)
- Is ChatGPT nicer than your doctor? Is the information better?
Tuesday Links
- George Halvorson: “The death rate for many dual eligible patients [in traditional Medicare] with some conditions runs at about 40 percent, and we know from a year-long study … that the death rate for the people who enrolled in the Medicare Advantage [special needs plans] was 3 percent.”
- More from Halvorson on fee-for-service Medicare: “the program has 10,000 billing codes for procedures and not one billing code for a cure.”
- Survey: More than 25% of pilots admitted to being untruthful on medical forms — and nearly half turned to nonprofessionals for medical advice versus seeing a doctor.
- Under the public health emergency, employers can offer stand-alone telehealth benefits to benefits-ineligible employees like part-time or seasonal workers. Hard to believe employers need the government’s permission to do this.
Tuesday Links
Answer: allow these doctors to practice as “Assistant Physicians.”
Commission Report: COVID response exposed “collective national incompetence.” We needed a commission to know that?