Although the legislation allows states to begin eligibility redeterminations for Medicaid to reduce the nearly 20 million ineligible enrollees, it also makes it easier for many enrollees to keep Medicaid, creates a Medicaid slush fund, and unjustifiably funnels more taxpayer money to U.S. territories through Medicaid.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Friday Links
- Study: Up to 31.6 percent of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments (intended to support hospitals that serve low-income patients) have gone to hospitals that do not care for very many low-income patients.
- “Tripledemic” news stories are just hype.
- California medical school admits it experimented on prisoners in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Hospital donors get VIP treatment and jump the queue when they need medical care. (NYT) Is anyone surprised by this? Is there anything wrong with it?
Tuesday Links
- Evidence against The Great Barrington Declaration’s idea of focused protection.
- The feds are cracking down on Medicare Advantage plans.
- CDC: Flu season appears to be normal, despite the media hype.
- CTUP study: Government payments and free health care benefits can pay more than the annual equivalent of a $100,000 job in three states, and the equivalent of an $80,000 a year job in 13 states.
Monday Links
- Jeffrey Singer and Trevor Burrus on the misguided history of government regulation of addictive drugs.
- “The FBI set up a command post ahead of the 2020 election to send election-related posts to Twitter and other platforms for possible action. A similar group flagged posts on the day of the 2022 midterms…”
- Scott Atlas: Twitter Censorship Contributed to Destructive Pandemic Policies and Is Criminal.
- New documents reveal how the United States government used a secret Twitter portal to censor COVID-19 content that contradicted the government’s narrative.
- A libertarian Medical Oath.