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Uber ambulences? The impact of the sunshine act. Aging is not as bad as we think. Nurse complaint from 1898 that rings true today. Pre-existing conditions fact check.
Category: Current Events
MacArthur “Genius” Fellows announced
This year’s MacArthur “Genius” Fellows were announced today. While there is a great diversity of amazing individuals receiving the grants, I will focus on those related to the health care space: Amy Finkelstein: health economist, at MIT, who is formulating robust experimental designs that provide data-driven guidance for innovations in health care theory, policy, and delivery…
Immuno-oncology docs win the Nobel Prize in Medicine
The winners are James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for research to treat cancer using the body’s own immune system. The Nobel Prize officially was “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.” The Wall Street Journal reports: The work of Drs. Allison and Honjo formed the backbone of new generations…
Friday Links
Do “nudges” succeed or fail in the ACA marketplaces? NYT on bundled payments. Genetic instrumental variables. Cause of famine in China. Competition may improve efficiency, but how does it affect mental health?
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CEA and value-based care. Spending dynamics and health shocks. Are we ready for access restrictions based on CEA? Does Amazon lead to higher prices? The political power of pre-existing conditions.
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Stan for economists. The state of healthcare in a majority minority state. Will undiagnosed atrial fibrillation become a thing of the past? Does free medical school decrease social justice? A $100,000 heart attack (out-of-pocket with insurance!)
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Paperwork pollution. Graphs: economists vs. epidemiologists. Loneliness is a public health problem. A $122.6 billion market. VR to fight pain?
The big tech innovation from Amazon-Bershire Hathway-JP Morgan joint venture could be…
Narrow networks? That is one proposition from Bill Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark Capital, in an article from Business Insider. Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger, prefers the Kaiser model. “If the whole nation had Kaiser Permanente care, the average quality of the care would go way up and the cost would go way down,”…
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Some interesting reads to start off your week: Contracting and in-network providers. Cancer data sharing. Is one answer good enough for all? Parrot economics. Free medical school tuition at NYU.
Mid-week links
Is statistics taking over journalism? Regression to the mean in the MLB. Use of real-world evidence to measures NSCLC treatment effectiveness. Mental healthcare wait times adversely affect patient outcomes. Using cancer cells to kill cancer. Amazon to fill your Rx as you leave the hospital? Health plan won’t pay your ER bill…or will they? VBID…