- How widespread is the bias against men?
- A Medicare beneficiary with obesity costs $2,018 more than a non-obese beneficiary.
- Study: obesity drugs could save Medicare as much as $100 billion per year.
- NEJM counter study: obesity drugs could cause CMS budget to skyrocket.
- Is Medicare Advantage a bad deal for rural hospitals?
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links
- Should the government be able to monitor (in real time) patients who get opioid prescriptions?
- There are now 3 times as many non-faculty as there are faculty per student at the best schools in the U.S. HT: Arnold Kling
- RAND report: Mainstream news coverage is geared towards upholding pre-established narratives. Actual reporting has become exceedingly rare.
- Study: Hospice care saves money.
- Why nurses matter.
- Study: two years after unionization, nursing homes were more than 30 percentage points more likely than nonunion nursing homes to report an illness or injury to OSHA.
Wednesday Links
- Why Sweden did better than any other country during the Covid pandemic.
- If Medicare patients are receiving low-value care, who is providing it?
- Do elderly entitlements take from the poor and subsidize the rich? Individuals living in non-elderly households, whether with and without children, now are more likely to be poorer than senior citizens.
- Republican presidential candidates’ plans for Medicare.
Wednesday Links
- Why patients don’t get enough pain medicine: doctor indifference and drug thieves.
- The annual retail value of goods Americans buy and then return approaches a trillion dollars. HT: Tyler
- Main drug killer of 35 to 44-year-old adults by far is synthetic opioids.
- Should we care about “forever chemicals” that lurk in so much of what we eat, drink and use? Studies show they are bad for rats. (NYT)
- Man believes pediatric doctor reported him to Child Protective Services in retaliation over a bad Google review.
- Richard Hanania with a commonsense review of the risks and benefits of the Covid vaccine.