- Age-adjusted deaths from cold are ten times greater than deaths from heat.
- The first Generalist Medical AI system is out.
- Nate Silver on left-wing bias in the media.
- Is there anything wrong with having AI romantic partners? Apparently, yes.
- During the Covid pandemic, some hospital ICUs were overloaded, while neighboring hospitals had excess capacity. Worst victims of the lack of market clearing mechanisms: Medicaid enrollees and Blacks.
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- Lawsuit: Cigna algorithm rejects claims without a doctor even opening a patient’s records.
- Report: CMS’ Medicaid inflation penalty will make generic drug shortages worse.
- Virginia Medicaid paid at least $21.8 million on behalf of 12,054 enrollees after they were already dead.
- An expensive trip: a medically approved, psychedelic renaissance is underway.
- Did Gilead hold a promising HIV drug off the market in order to increase profits? (NYT) Economic theory would say no.
- Australia has “virtually eliminated” HIV transmission in Sydney and elsewhere.
Wednesday Links
- Meta study: unemployment and underemployment lead to (mainly psychological) ill health.
- Study: dual eligible MA “look alike” plans are threatening to undermine full service plans, even though they have only 1.4% of the market.
- “We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation — the limits of which aren’t even clear yet.” (NYT)
- In medicine, the source of junk science often comes from the medical journals themselves.
- ChatGPT-4 takes courses at Harvard. Gets a 3.34 GPA.
- JAMA study: the U.S. maternal mortality rate — already the highest among peer nations — has increased for all racial and ethnic groups.
Wednesday Links
- California considers affirmative action for prison sentences.
- Arnold Kling against marijuana.
- “We propose a new priority review voucher program to incentivize competition in limited-competition, small molecule generics markets.”
- Study: “We estimate that the recently proposed US price controls on drugs in the US would raise health care spending by $50.8 billion over a 20-year period.”