Briefly, just a quick and simple look as what contributes to total US healthcare spending. This is part of a much larger report: “How Has U.S. Health Care Spending Changed Over Time?” I find this part of the report to be interesting. But then, I was a consultant who was looking at throughput analysis. Very […]
Making the ACA marketplace plans a factor in economic issues is false as Andrew Sprung points out. The costs for marketplace ACA plans will experience similar inflation the same as employer plans. That is unless insurance companies jump on the bandwagon claiming the ACA plans are more expensive. This report is from mid-December. I would […]
Mark Twain famously observed: ”A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” Today is the 16th anniversary of the retraction of Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent report claiming a link between vaccination and autism. Sadly, RFK Jr and his fellow anti-vaxxers got the lie but not the truth. […]
Just a portion of a much larger KFF article on the affordability of healthcare. This portion of the report looks at severity of needed healthcare and what percentages of the population can afford it. The report splits its findings based upon age, severity, access to insurance, affordability, etc. Age is a large factor with those […]
In the past I would list articles for Sunday reads which I thought might be interesting for Angry Bear readers. I believe these might be such. Just supplying a sentence or two for each article to pique your interest. Angry Bear gets no monetary reward for doing this. We just try to interest our readers. […]
The crisis in American healthcare is not who subsidizes insurance premiums. It is why the cost of healthcare keeps increasing beyond inflation and other costs. The bill to the patient is being driven higher due to hospital systems demanding reimbursement increases which outpaces inflation, wages, and economic growth. The same would apply to healthcare supplies, […]
This piece by Merrill Goozner was written one year ago to the month. Merrill covers a lot of territory in his healthcare discussions. There is one other person who also is very knowledgeable about Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans. As Merrill says there is not need for 5% increases in pricing for Medicare Advantage plans […]
I spent my entire research career working on animals. In this case, the animals were Drosophila melanogaster, or “fruit flies.” I dissected tens of thousands of larval salivary glands because their giant polytene chromosomes afforded a relatively high resolution map of the genome. I made over 100 transgenic lines to gain insight into gene function. […]
The facts remain that many women were not included in clinical trials which a hole in the testing wider when the numbers are compared to Men in Clinical Trials. No doubt, there is a difference in reaction to various medicines. Throughout history, doctors have considered women’s bodies atypical and men’s bodies the “norm,” despite women […]
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