Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
A paper by Hanson et al. (2023) summarizes the Congressional Budget Office’s projections around US health insurance coverage between 2023-2033. They find that low rates of uninsurance due to provisions enacted to combat COVID-19 will not be sustained as these provisions expire: Temporary policies enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have increased Medicaid and…
Benefits from quality competition in health care? Impact of debt ceiling deal on health programs. Signals that are so clear you don’t need statistics, and signals that are so weak that statistical analysis can’t help. Health equity impact of sickle cell gene therapy. Primer on drug development from Derek Lowe. Central Limit Theorem explained.
That is the topic of a recent paper Tyan, Lam and Milligan (2023). Using newly created database from financial databases combined with press releases, news sources, clinic websites, and financial 10-K reports, the authors found that: During 2003 to 2022, 724 oncology clinics (53% radiation, 32% medical, 15% multi-oncologic) became affiliated with a PE-backed platform…