And this amount is still wasted today. Not much has changed since 2014 when this was written and also appeared on Angry Bear. I have added some links at the end for reading and backup. And like then, rather than attack the issue, Congress is willing to cut services to the people needing Medicaid. It […]
I was reading about various healthcare issues I found on the internet and in particular Today on Medscape. The snippets are of longer articles which go into greater detail. You may find other articles to be of interest on Medscape at Latest Medical News, Clinical Trials, Guidelines, Today on Medscape. That is if they are […]
In Arizona’s Mr. Andrew Biggs is lecturing us on how Republicans are going to pass a spending bill benefiting those who do not need tax breaks to get by. Instead of cutting Defense or some other programs, Andrew along with other AZ Republicans such as Elijah James Crane will be cutting Medicaid which supports lower […]
CEPR’s Brandon Novick wrote a piece on Medicare Advantage plans. It is brief enough to make for easy reading, It also gets to the point of Medicare Advantage plans. As it was commercial Medicare Advantage plans were overcharging for the same care Traditional Medicare would charge. In many cases the plans would not approve the […]
For most people, 23andMe is synonymous with direct-to-consumer genomics. It isn’t DNA sequencing, it’s microarrays that are capable of detecting many annotated variants. As with all direct-to-consumer genomics, the cost to consumers was supposed to be subsidized by the aftermarket for genetic information. In the event, 23andMe declared bankruptcy recently, and there was a question […]
Part One of this report is an introduction to Losses, Revenue, and Costs incurred by Rural Hospitals. I have broken the report up so as to allow a reader some time to absorb the information on Rural Hospitals. It is a bit lengthy although it does have numerous graphs and charts. The report itself was […]
In analyzing the Medicaid cuts under consideration by House Republicans for inclusion in budget reconciliation legislation, it is often easier to examine each specific proposal in isolation. But singular reviews does not paint a complete picture It is important to take a step back and look at how these proposals would interact with each other and […]
The link is to a long but cogent piece in Talking Points Memo. Unlike the author, I long ago appreciated the threats posed by the massive cuts to NIH funding. But Josh does the extra work of thinking about how this anti-science juggernaut could be halted. Read the whole thing, but here are the nut […]
If this was about people taking advantage of Medicaid, Unemployment, or other government programs, there might be a reason to do what Congress is doing. Instead, elected Republican Senators and Representatives are moving in mass to cut programs so as to maintain Trump’s 2017 TCJA tax breaks which was passed under reconciliation. The tax break […]
“During an interview with Dr. Phil in late April, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the bold claim that “the mumps part” of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine “has never worked.”” Do I even have to tell you he’s full of it? Of course he is. If you gave the man an […]