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Posted on September 4, 2024September 3, 2024 by John C. Goodman

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.

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