Healthcare Triage
If Economists Chose the Health Care System
Health economists study the economic determinants of health. They also analyze how health care resources are utilized and allocated, and how health care policies and quality of care can be improved. In this episode, we discuss what...
Healthcare Triage
Journalism CAN Lead to Changes in Policy: CMS and Data Sharing
Three years ago, and without notice, data about patients with substance use disorders began to disappear from Medicare and Medicaid files widely used in health services research. Because researchers had been afforded access to those data...
Healthcare Triage
Ending Risk Adjustment Payments Will Further Undermine Obamacare
The Trump administration announced its intent to stop making risk adjustment payments to insurers on the ACA marketplaces.
Healthcare Triage
Doctor Choice Can Be Limited with Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage are plans with private companies that contract with Medicare to deliver services. Some of these plans work great, but many of them have limited lists of approved providers, which can make finding a doctor difficult for...
MarketWatch
These tax traps could derail your early retirement plan
If you’re part of the financial independence retire early (FIRE) movement, your plan is to retire well ahead of traditional retirement age. Watch out for these unexpected tax bills.
Healthcare Triage
Preventive Care is Good, Even Though It's Not Saving Money
The idea that spending more on preventive care will reduce overall health care spending is widely believed and often promoted as a reason to support reform. Unfortunately, that doesn't pan out in real life.
Healthcare Triage
Medicare and the Doc Fix: Healthcare Triage News
We've got a permanent doc fix. It's all about the sustainable growth rate. Confused? We'll help. This is Healthcare Triage News.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
James Galbraith: Governing With A Higher Purpose To Spur Innovation
The United States’ deep political polarization is blinding the nation from seeing what it takes to create an effective innovation economy. Simply put, to many figures on the political right the government is simply a source of corruption...
Healthcare Triage
The Trump Administration's Plans for Medicare Premium Support
Senior Trump Administration official Seema Verma has written that Medicare is in financial trouble, and one step in fixing it is giving consumers "incentives to be cost-conscious." This may be coded language for something called premium...
Healthcare Triage
How to Fix Obamacare's Marketplaces
Obamacare's marketplaces were supposed to give consumers choices of health plans from insurers that compete to keep premiums down. But fewer insurers are participating, and premiums are increasing sharply.
Healthcare Triage
The Various Plans for Medicare for All
Now that we’ve set the ground rules, and the five main questions to consider, let’s look at the various plans. At the time we taped this episode (in mid February), there were ten that we could get full answers for. How they break down is...
Healthcare Triage
The Many Attempts to Improve the Value of Medicare
There have been a lot of innovations in Medicare over the last decade or so, with the intent of improving the program's value. There have been some successes, but there is still a lot to be done.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Economics for People with Ha-Joon Chang [TRAILER]
“It is extremely important for our democracy to function that ordinary citizens understand the key issues and basic theories of economics.” – Ha-Joon Chang Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where specialized language...
Healthcare Triage
More Medicaid News, but This Time Its Not All Terrible!
This week, Seema Verma announced that the administration would not approve several requests by states to place lifetime limits on Medicaid benefits. How about that? The CMS doesn't do much to protect benefits these days, but this is a...
Healthcare Triage
Canada's Healthcare System Explained!
Last week we discussed the United States health care system. This week we discuss Canada's. We also take some time to bust some myths about their single payer health care system. Fight about it in the comments below.
Healthcare Triage
But, But, Medicaid Recipients Are Already Working
Recently, the Trump administration put forward plans to force all the able-bodied lazy people with Medicaid coverage to finally get jobs. The problem with this is that pretty much all the Medicaid recipients who can work already have...
Healthcare Triage
Aduhelm is FDA Approved for Alzheimer's, But Does it Work?
Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that affects millions of people in the US alone, so there was a lot of excitement about recent news headlines of a drug approved to treat the disease. However, the approval was met with an outcry from...
Healthcare Triage
Canada's Healthcare System Explained!
Last week we discussed the United States health care system. This week we discuss Canada's. We also take some time to bust some myths about their single payer health care system. Fight about it in the comments below.
The Business Professor
Ch9. Video 9 - Employer Payroll Tax example
Employer Payroll Tax (Accounting) example
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Teresa Ghilarducci: The Retirement Crisis
The retirement crisis is anything but imaginary. According to research conducted by Professor Teresa Ghilarducci, head of the Department of Economics at the New School in New York City, only 44% of workers in the United States have...
TLDR News
Medicare For All Public Option Comparing Health Care Plans - TLDR News
Going into the 2020 election there's a lot of disagreement about the future of health care in the US. Some Democratic candidates favour a 'Medicare For All' style plan covering all Americans, while others favour an opt-in 'Public...
Healthcare Triage
Australian Health Care
It's been a while since we've done an international health care system episode. We thought you might need a break. That break ends now. Australia has the only continental, universal health care system, and it's topic of this week's...
Hip Hughes History
Obama and Romney for Dummies
HipHughes covers the essentials on the two major candidates for President, outlining the differences between the candidates so you can make up your mind if you haven't already. Be ready for some simplification! Topics covered include...