It is a thought of the cost of healthcare and people skipping it due to cost. I suspect the number in this report for 2022 – 2024 are lower. Lower only because of President Biden’s healthcare adjustments to the ACA plans making it less costly for families. People were out of work and would have […]
r.j. sigmund:Toxic PFAs impacting Americans’ drinking water via treated wastewater: Study — Nearly 7 percent of Americans may be exposed to hazardous levels of “forever chemicals” through treated municipal wastewater, a new study has found. These approximately 23 million people may be consuming these toxic compounds, also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in their […]
Maggie Mahar would cite Phillip Longman and his book the Best Care Anywhere when she was on her own blog and also at Angry Bear afterwards. Mr. Longman has a history of detailing the healthcare given by the Veterans Administration. His proposal then was commercial healthcare should be replaced by a similar organization such as […]
I am running late on posting for tomorrow. This piece by Merrill Goozner of GoozNews is one half of his piece on pharmaceuticals. The article is entitled “A plan to make drugs affordable for all.” The link is GoozNews above. You can read the entire article, scroll down to “Trust Bust,” or just click on […]
This report is pretty self-explanatory. I will say it anyway. The excess paid to MA plans over and above what is sent by Medicare is enough to wipe out Traditional Medicare Part B premiums. The sum of overpayment was anywhere from $88 billion to $140 billion as suggested on page 2 in the Introduction of […]
Is Jay Bhattacharya a libertarian? Does it matter? Jay Bhattacharya was an author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued that we should let covid spread freely among healthy people to reach herd immunity as quickly as possible. The elderly and those whose health made them vulnerable to covid should be given “focused protection”. Bhattacharya […]
A plus now and a potential negative year end. January 8, 2025: ACA Open Enrollment is, was running over 16% ahead (I am sure it increased) of roughly the same point a year earlier in 2024, On January 8, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced “Nearly 24 Million Consumers Have Selected Affordable Health Coverage in […]
The right-wing mantra is that private enterprise is always more efficient than government. As far as I can tell, private enterprise is more efficient at extracting dollars from citizens, yes. And banks have proven to be efficient at extracting bail-outs when their judgement leads to insolvency. Recently, the bankruptcy of for-profit Steward Health Care closed […]
Compare the above numeric in the title to the 96% of employees in the highest 10% of wage earners. having access to employer sponsored healthcare. In 2022, seventy percent of private sector workers had access to medical care benefits. Less than half of them obtained coverage that way (a take-up rate of just 66%). As […]
The upshot of a Republican led Congress threatening Medicaid kind of makes sense. They can’t threaten Musk, Zuckerman, or the other bunch of billionaires. They would pay for that occurrence. So, in order to look good they pick on those who have little political clout. They are not going to loudly mention how they cleaned […]