- Stop overpaying hospitals by pursuing site-neutral payments in Medicare;
- increase efficiencies in Medicare Advantage payments as laid out in Paragon’s proposal;
- let the enhanced ACA subsidies to health insurers expire after 2025; and
- Stop discriminating against traditional Medicaid enrollees (low-income kids, pregnant women, and people with disabilities) by lowering the federal subsidy rate for ACA able-bodied, working-age expansion enrollees to the rate paid for traditional enrollees.
Category: Public Insurance
Monday Links
- An argument on drug shortages: GPOs are not the problem. (Stat News)
- Biden executive orders have cost us more than $2 trillion, based on CBO estimates.
- CBO: the CMS funded models of care (designed to lower cost and improve quality) are increasing (not decreasing) federal health care spending.
- Study: subsidizing women’s work drives down birth rates.
- Laws on the books in half the states could make you responsible for paying for your parents nursing home care.
Friday Links
- Does health care improve health? Scott Alexander contra Robin Hanson.
- Certificate of need (CON) laws still operate in 35 states.
- Why Medicare won’t pay for additional breast scans.
- Is the government hiding something about the “Havana Syndrome”?
- Why ACOs aren’t working.
- Cost of new regulations under Biden: $1.37 trillion.
Thursday Links
- Commonwealth Fund finds major differences in health care inputs and outcomes across racial and ethnic groups. It completely ignores the role of genes.
- Earth Day good news: Over the past 60 years, GDP is up nearly 800% but emissions are down 60% even though we are still using record amounts of fossil fuels.
- New Guinea Prime Minister to Joe Biden: “We are not cannibals.”
- Joe Biden promised to never cut Medicare and “to stop” anyone who tries. He just cut benefits for 33 million enrollees in Medicare advantage.