- One in five Americans has turned to alternative medicine in place of conventional medicine at some point.
- Sweden is offering $34,000 to immigrants who agree to leave the country. (NYT)
- Ezra Klein explains to Jon Stewart all the regulatory obstacles to getting rural broadband.
- The loss of GDP from Trump’s Wednesday tariff hikes is more than the gain from extending the TCJA tax bill.
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- Primary care physicians providing a higher proportion of telehealth visits cared for more Black, Hispanic, dual-eligible, and medically complex patients.
- To make telehealth access permanent for Medicare patients, let the rate be lower than the rate for in-office visits.
- Mobility: More than three out of four Americans (76.8%) will be in the top 20% by income for at least one year between ages 26 to 60, and about one out of three will be there for ten years or more!
- “We show how fraud is driven by a combination of inadequate (expected) penalties for fraud and imperfect reimbursement rates.”
Tuesday Links
- Oz promises to go after upcoding in Medicare Advantage plans. (WSJ)
- However, there is more upcoding in traditional Medicare than there is in Medicare Advantage.
- The Economist: Foreign aid is doing more harm than good.
- The New York Times admits it was wrong on covid.
- Bill Frist: Microplastics are poisoning us.
Tuesday Links
- Scientists estimate that tens of trillions of viruses live inside of us. (NYT)
- The US would have had 1.6 million fewer deaths if it had managed covid the way Sweden did.
- Between 2019-24, the EU approved 13,000 new laws and regulations while the U.S. imposed 5,500.
- The United States imports roughly one-fifth of its pharmaceutical preparations by dollar value from China and India combined.
- Marco Rubio: After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.