I want to highlight something that bothers me about the entire idea of getting massive cost savings from emergency room diversions (via TPM): The example Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) gave in an interview with MLive.com was from his own experience when he waited until the morning after to take his youngest son to the doctor …
Prepping for the future
Researchers race to copy Obamacare data for fear it will vanish https://t.co/vg1KvReTzr via @ddiamond pic.twitter.com/qiF379l3Uh — POLITICO (@politico) December 21, 2016 I’ll be downloading everything that I can from Healthcare.gov by January 15th. I hope that I’m wasting my time but the cost benefit analysis is clear that downloading and archiving is a plausible choice. …
Love you, don’t want to live with you Mom and Dad
"Trump will destroy Medicare and Social Security" might do, as it appears to be true. https://t.co/Ign6jX3esH — xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) December 20, 2016 I love my parents. One of the smartest and best things that I did for my relationship with them was moving six hundred miles away for college as I was a complete snot …
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How to make money saying no
The Chicago Tribune did a really nice piece of investigative reporting on pharmacies. What thy found is scary but not too surprising as it is hard for retail pharmacies to make money while saying no. The Tribune reporter walked into an Evanston CVS pharmacy carrying two prescriptions: one for a common antibiotic, the other for …
Time to get into the weeds
I want to build on Tamara’s good post from this morning on how to organize and defend when forced to and advance when possible. The federal bureaucracy will be our friend. Right now the Trump team is being staffed by incompetents, grifters and Brietbart comment section heroes in too many high level, high profile locations. …
PSA: Enroll tonight
Healthcare.gov extended their enrollment period by four days for January 1st coverage. That extension ends tonight at 11:59 Pacific Time. Time to get enrolled. There are three damn good reasons to enroll. 1) You need coverage for yourself and your family 2) Most plausible Replace plans will rely on some type of continual coverage mandate …
Death for fun and profits
538 has a good write up on the changing patterns of causes of death in the United States. There is one part I want to pull out: Mortality due to substance abuse has increased in Appalachia by more than 1,000 percent since 1980…. The linked study has a great set of customizable maps. For substance …