- Noah Smith’s case for Biden’s industrial policy.
- On way a hospital makes money: don’t let the patients leave: (NYT)
- A social worker spent six days inside an Acadia hospital in Florida after she tried to get her bipolar medications adjusted.
- A woman who works at a children’s hospital was held for seven days after she showed up at an Acadia facility in Indiana looking for therapy.
- And after police officers raided an Acadia hospital in Georgia, 16 patients told investigators that they had been kept there “with no excuses or valid reason.”
- Medicare is barred by law from paying for weight loss drugs just for weight loss. But Medicaid can, and federal taxpayers pay as much as half the cost. (NYT)
- The Little Sisters of the Poor fought for seven years before winning against Obamacare mandates in court.
- Lesson from both political conventions: Neither party cares whether the poor or the near poor have health insurance.
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- 16 ways the Biden/Harris administration has made housing more expensive.
- Casy Mulligan: Biden Harris regulations will cost the average family $50,000 over a lifetime.
- Price negotiation does not save money when you are paying for drugs that don’t work.
- Scientists are getting better at pinpointing our biological age. Can they reverse the process?
Wednesday Links
- Cost/benefit analysis: Should it’s application be different for different demographic groups? For example, should low-income Blacks pay a different soda tax than high-income whites? Don’t laugh. This idea is implied at the Health Affairs Blog.
- 10,000 years ago, the world’s populating was between 20 and 50 million. And that is where it pretty much stayed until the industrial revolution. After that, it shot up to 8 billion, which is where it is today.
- In a single year, between 2020 and 2021, services of psychologists offering both in-person and virtual sessions grew from 30% to 50%.
- Against PBMs.
- Kamala’s health plan: It could cost $44 trillion over a decade. That includes some $1.8 trillion to cover some 11 million illegal immigrants.