Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations met on Tuesday to beat up on Medicare Advantage plans. Chairwoman Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) claimed seniors are “required to jump through numerous hoops” to get the care they need.
Category: Medicare
Monday Links
- Colorado gets permission to include a public option in its (Obamacare) exchange. But as Ed Haislmaier and I showed, this won’t matter as long as the playing field is level.
- Buprenorphine is highly effective at preventing overdoses and treating opioid use disorder; but enrollees in Medicaid managed care rarely see a doctor who prescribes it. Even so, that’s better than regular Medicaid.
- Another article on medical debt, missing Devon Herrick’s point that Obamacare is the reason for its rise.
- Responding to the Roe decision, Matt Holt completely loses it. Lesson for us all: don’t write blog posts when you are having a temper tantrum.
- If housing is a health care issue, should Medicaid pay the rent?
Friday Links
Wednesday Links
- Harvard Study: Medicare could save $3.6 billion a year by taking advantage of Mark Cuban’s new mail order pharmacy.
- Nearly 1 in 4 women in the United States will have an abortion by the age of 45; and almost 93 percent are performed before the 13th week.
- “The greatest heist of American taxpayer dollars in history.” They’re talking about Covid money lost to fraud.
- In Texas, physicians who earn a “gold card” no longer have to endure the hassles of prior authorization.
- The part of covid that’s not over: every large city is below 50% of its office space being occupied.