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ACA: In peril with Ginsburg’s seat in play RCT: App to help you quit smoking DCE: Framing bias? pCODR: Do they care about patient advocate input? CRFB: On the fiscal impact of the Biden health plan
Category: Current Events
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Mathematical vs. conceptual simplicity. “Hell has frozen over” Former FDA Commissioners on EUA for COVID vaccine Drug imports from Canada coming? ED wait times during COVID. COVID money tracker.
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Are hospitals separating COVID and non-COVID patients? SLR on GBTM. FDA on molecular COVID testing. Biden health care plan. George Hill.
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Why cost-effectiveness thresholds should not decline during a pandemic. IVI on value assessment. Identifying your rare disease. Binding arbitration and out-of-network billing. COVID surge over Labor Day?
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Can hydroxychloroquine prevent COVID-19? Clinical trials during COVID-19. Specialist compensation in ACOs. Moral hazard in the Netherland health insurance system? Where do children play?
Masks work
That is based on an event study approach from a recent Health Affairs article by Lyu and Wehby (2020). Specifically, Mandating face mask use in public is associated with a decline in the daily COVID-19 growth rate by 0.9, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7, and 2.0 percentage points in 1–5, 6–10, 11–15, 16–20, and 21 or more…
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Wear a mask. Election forecast uncertainty. Baby born after uterus transplant. Organ sales. Will pandemic lower health insurance premiums?
Medicaid enrollment on the rise
As reported by Kaiser Health News: Reversing a three-year decline, the number of people covered by Medicaid nationwide rose markedly this spring as the impact of the recession caused by the outbreak of COVID-19 began to take hold.Yet, the growth in participation in the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people was less than many…
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JAMA perspective on back to school. Americans with HDHP aren’t using HSAs. Where are they now: digital health unicorns. EITC and mental health. Dems: $25 billion for vaccines.
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How are mosquitos benefiting from COVID-19. Sweden. Explaining Gödel’s proof. L.A. Teachers Union response to COVID-19: end charter schools? defund the police? COVID-19 vaccine = hope-driven hype?