On this Labor Day, how is healthcare evolving for workers and firms? First, healthcare spending is on the rise, with costs increasing more than inflation. Fox Business reports on a new Aon study which says that: …employer health care expenditures are projected to surge 9% in 2025 to more than $16,000 per employee, markedly higher…
By MIKE MAGEE Clearly the Harris-Walz ticket has been doing their homework. Last week, the book above was spotted on one prominent thought-leader’s pile: “Human Evolutionary Demography.” It’s a 780 page academic Tour de force read by veteran scientist Oskar Burger, leader of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Laboratory of Evolutionary…
As of 2007, about half of physicians had noncompete clauses (“noncompetes” for short) in their contracts. However, a recent FTC rule severely limits when they could be used. What specifically did the new FTC rule say about non-competes? Fuse Brown et al. (2024) provide a helpful summary. The final FTC rule declares all new noncompete clauses or…
By MIKE MAGEE When Andrew Jameton, a Nursing Professor at the Department of Mental Health and Community Nursing at UCSF in 1984 published “Nursing Practice: The Ethical Issues”, the term “Moral Distress” was a novel term in clinical health care. It focused primarily on “care that they were expected to provide but ethically opposed.” Over…
By GEORGE HALVORSON Special Needs Plans Change Lives for The Lowest Income and Highest Need Patients The people who benefit the most from Medicare Advantage are clearly the very low-income and high health-need people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid as programs and who enroll as members in the Medicare Advantage Special Needs…
Check out my new paper titled “Healthcare Stakeholder Perspectives on a Value Assessment Approach for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Therapies“. The abstract is below. Purpose: Traditional value assessment frameworks are challenged in comprehensively assessing the societal value new therapies bring to individuals with rare, progressive, genetic, fatal, neuromuscular diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The…
Managing multiple medications is a challenge for many individuals, particularly the elderly. One study by Almodóvar et al. (2019) found that among Medicare beneficiaries eligible for medication therapy management (MTM), 51% had used 11 or more medications. One approach to improving medication management is to use an appointment-based model (ABM) and other forms of medication…
By KIM BELLARD I feel much about synthetic biology as I do AI: I don’t really understand it from a technical point of view, but I sure am excited about its potential. Sometimes they even overlap, as I’ll discuss later. But I’ll start with some recent developments with bioplastics, a topic I have somehow never…
GREELEY, Colorado — A principios de agosto, trabajadores agrícolas se reunieron en un parque de Greeley para celebrar con un picnic el Día de Apreciación del Trabajador Agrícola. Un signo de que este año fue diferente de los anteriores fue el menú: fajitas de res, tortillas, pico de gallo, chips, frijoles… pero sin pollo. Las…