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 […]
It has been a while since I have covered the issue of bullet spewing weapons on Angry Bear. For the record, I own and I shoot. My weapons are trigger locked and ammo is separate from them. I am also an XMarine Sergeant. My experience is extensive. My training with an M14 and M1s was […]
– by New Deal democrat A year ago I said that I would only update information about the state of COVID-19 if there was something significant to report. And as of the end of the year 2024 there is: deaths from COVID in 2024 have fallen to the point where they are equivalent to the upper […]
Upcoding Linked to Up to Two-Thirds of Growth in Highest-Intensity Hospital Discharges in 5 States, 2011–19, Health Affairs This is an abstract as I did not have access to the research article by Health Affairs. Besides the numerics also consider this is only for 5 states. Just something to be aware of and the magnitude […]
Too lengthy to include the entire article. I did get the part were Louisiana Gov. Landry and his appointed doctors are all decrying vaccinations in general claiming they can cause autism. In case you did not know (and I am sure Joel will back this up, right?) “there is no link between childhood vaccinations and […]
Here’s a program to limit out-of-pocket costs and insurer overreach: Put a cap on household spending and put providers on a budget. The ‘skin in the game’ gambit has failed – by Merrill Goozner GoozNews Online vitriol isn’t pretty. But the mass schadenfreude that greeted the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, while cruel […]