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Cost of Bernie Sanders’ M4A Plan: $13 trillion February 28, 2020
No, that is not a typo. The cost of Bernie Sanders Medicare-for-All (M4A) plan is $13 trillion dollars. How does this stack up to other candidates? The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget does the math. Whereas Mr. Sanders plan would cost $12.95 trillion between 2021 and 2030, Mrs. Warren’s plan would cost $6.1 trillion,…
COVID-19 comes to California February 27, 2020
On the night of Donald Trump’s first major speech on the corronavirus called COVID-19, California announced the first person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 in the US. The L.A. Times reports: It is not clear how the person became infected, but public health workers could not identify any contacts with people who had traveled to China or…
Does drug decriminalization work? The Portugal case study February 25, 2020
In 2001, Portugal decriminalized drugs. What does that mean? How did it health outcomes, incarcerations, drug trafficking and other outcomes? A post by Liam Bendicksen at Incidental Economist reviews the literature. The first thing to understand is what decriminalization in Portugal did and did not do. …drug reforms decriminalized possession up to “the quantity required…
How does Medicaid pay for pharmaceuticals? February 23, 2020
Kaiser Family Foundation has a nice overview of how Medicaid pays for prescription drugs. Below, I except from this helpful piece, but do check out the full article here. One point that many may not realize is that State Medicaid Agencies do not actually buy pharmaceuticals directly from manufacturers. Rather, they reimburse retail pharmacies that…
Links February 21, 2020
Does medical marijuana increase or decrease Workers’ Comp claims? Value-based contracts for a $2m drug. Tips on working with claims data. Are decision support tools turning doctors into idiots? (from 2011) Is Medicaid mediocre?