- Controversial Meta-analysis of 74 studies finds a relationship between fluoride exposure and lower IQ.
- Then downside of fewer diagnostic categories in Medicare Advantage: increased incentives for risk selection and reduced incentives to provide high-quality care to beneficiaries with diagnoses in the excluded groups.
- “Our findings reveal that hospitals (for-profit and nonprofit) have consistently maintained higher profit margins than insurance companies…. our analysis suggests that high hospital prices drive insurance premiums.”
- Does investing in social determinants of health pay off?
- No, moderate drinking will not give you cancer. See also, WSJ
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- Are foreign trained doctors better than US trained doctors? I doubt it.
- Why we need health insurance companies.
- Other than Medicare Advantage, no health plan wants a sick person.
- Oz and RFK, Jr. clash over weight loss drugs.
- Only 9% of tax filers today itemize deductions, and they are almost all of them are millionaires and billionaires. So why not get rid of them and move to a flat tax?
Wednesday Links
- “The study found that cold killed 17.4 people for every person killed by heat.”
- Trump: Ignore a lot of RFK Jr.’s past statements.
- The prices paid in 2019 by Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans in hospital outpatient departments were double those paid in physician offices for biologics, chemotherapies, and other infused cancer drugs,
- Novartis announced that its new gene therapy cancer treatment (Kymriah) will cost $475,000 for the one-time infusion. There is no charge if the treatment doesn’t work.
- The case for vaccines.
- The evolution of managed care: form doctor/hospital run HMOs to AI.