Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Reforming the WHOs Essential Medicines List. Should countries ban dual practice by physicians? Evidence on alcohol use. College vaccine mandates and COVID deaths. Using natural experiments for analysis of population health. 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
Hunger in America. Cancer vaccines being developed by Moderna/Merck and BioNTech. Health plan value ≠ star ratings. Impact of daylight savings on health. Reduced copayment for psychologist treatment and suicide attempts. Ode to Giannis.
The 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine went to Svante Pääbo. Unlike many former winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. Pääbo never actually invented any specific medicine or class of medicine. Rather the award was given “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. The press release from the Nobel…
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig. The award was given for the laureates role in improving our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises. The Nobel website summarizes their contribution as follows: For the economy to function, savings must be channelled to investments. However, there is a conflict…
Republicans abandon Obamacare repeal? “…children with Medicaid coverage in Oregon will be able to keep their coverage until the age of 6” 2023 AEA Officers. Physician burnout. Should we move on from readmissions reduction measure?
Medical debt. Explaining Aaron Rodgers back-to-back MVPs? Amazon and One Medical. Judge rules on 340B. 2/3 of MD are experiencing burnout.
Private equity investments have grown in health care in recent years. According to Appelbaum and Batt (2020), whereas in only 4.7% of leveraged buy-outs (LBO) were in health care in 2000, that number had risen to 12.2% in 2019. A 2022 white paper finds that investments in health care have risen even more: The number…
Drug pull incentives and innovation. Symmetrical 4-set and 5-set Venn diagrams ICER white paper on rare disease. COVID-19, bullying and cyber-bullying. Rx provisions in the IRA.
A path forward for digital therapeutics reimbursement. Med students don’t go to class. Hospital capacity constraints exacerbate racial bias. UnitedHealth moves to $0 copay for emergency drugs. IVI Methods Summit.
Total work comp drug spend for 2020 was about $3 billion. “The share of high-SES friends among individuals with low SES… is among the strongest predictors of upward income mobility identified to date” Prescription video games. “The health care industry annually dumps approximately 550 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents into the atmosphere.” “Sharia…