- Disruptive innovation in health care.
- In response to the payment change, annual incident dementia diagnosis rates in Medicare Advantage increased by 11.5 percent relative to traditional Medicare.
- Why government administered pricing of drugs isn’t working.
- What gerrymandering produces: Just 8 percent of congressional races and 7 percent of state legislative races were decided by fewer than five percentage points. (NYT)
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- Biden pardons his family in the last few minutes in office.
- The Mexico City Policy (on abortion) switches every time the presidency changes parties.
- David Henderson on the Commonwealth Fund’s international health care comparisons.
- As many as 2 billion people suffer from chronic pain. (NYT)
- Something else RFK, Jr may be right about: Raw milk. (NYT)
Tuesday Links
- Evidence that families’ decision to have children are influenced by which party wins the presidency.
- AHIP: two years of consecutive cuts to Medicare Advantage is why many seniors are now experiencing a reduction in coverage choices, higher costs and reduced benefits.
- Teen alcohol and drug use keeps declining. (Despite 24 states legalizing recreational cannabis.)
- Hispanic versus non-Hispanic White gaps were smaller in Medicare Advantage than in traditional Medicare for all outcomes: avoidable emergency department use, preventable hospitalizations, and thirty-day hospital readmissions. Results are mixed for White/Black comparisons.