- Paragon: The lifetime benefits the average senior will receive from Medicare will soon reach $750,000, after paying only $200,000 in taxes.
- Should pooled have a property/privacy right in their own brain waves? (NYT)
- How restrictive are the networks of Medicare Advantage plans?
- Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of the U.S. population as a whole.
- Trend in state health reforms: regulating instead of markets.
- Why does mortality go down in recessions?
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- US drug shortages reach an all time high.
- Bathrooms of the future: First, an alert from your toilet—you’re dehydrated. The mirror over your sink advises you to apply your prescription cream. As you step into the shower—it glows with infrared light, designed to soothe inflammation ….. (WSJ)
- Walmart is delivering prescription drugs to patients by drones in Dallas-Fort Worth.
- Report from Britain: There is little evidence that DEI efforts such as mandatory antibias training have any positive effect on corporate culture.
- Mayo Clinic: Puberty blockers cause long-term fertility problems in boys.
Saturday Links
- Landmark 15-year transgender study: Around one-in-10 children expressed “gender non-contentedness” to varying degrees. But by age 25, just one-in-25 (4 percent) said they “often” or “sometimes” were discontent with their gender.
- Illegal immigrants are leaving hospitals with billions in unpaid hospital bills.
- Was your operation performed by a doctor? Or by a medical student in training? And how do you really know?
- Only half of all adults are married. And that’s not good, because “Marriage predicts happiness better than education, work and money.” (NYT)
- NEJM in the 1930s: “When it did address Nazi ‘medical’ practices, the Journal enthusiastically praised German forced sterilization and the restrictive alcohol policies of the Hitler Youth.”
- More on why the 2017 tax cut was a good idea.
Saturday Links
- How an (apparently) serious study of a vegan diet became fodder for a blatant propaganda film.
- Medicaid’s claim denials are higher than in Medicare or commercial insurance.
- GAO: Improper payments in Medicare and Medicaid top $100B. The number for Medicare Advantage is $17B – a little more than half of the total for traditional Medicare.
- Oprah ignores the downside of weight loss drugs.
- Jim Capretta reviews Obamacare – including all the provisions that either didn’t work or have been repealed.
- After completely screwing up Covid tests, the FDA now wants control of all other laboratory developed tests.