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Mashup Score: 0
Why the corporate push into primary care is so pernicious
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Mashup Score: 0Fewer employers are offering workers supplemental health benefits for retirement; those that do increasingly push Medicare Advantage - 29 day(s) ago
A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation (“Retiree Health Benefits: Going, Going, Nearly Gone?”) reveals a marked decline in supplemental employer-provided retirement health benefits. Across 5 surveys, the share of Medicare-Age adults with supplemental retiree benefits has fallen dramatically over the past few decades. Today, only 12-21% of older adults have such benefits.
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Link: https://t.co/vzjifFf1Ww
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Mashup Score: 0Fewer employers are offering workers supplemental health benefits for retirement; those that do increasingly push Medicare Advantage - 29 day(s) ago
A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation (“Retiree Health Benefits: Going, Going, Nearly Gone?”) reveals a marked decline in supplemental employer-provided retirement health benefits. Across 5 surveys, the share of Medicare-Age adults with supplemental retiree benefits has fallen dramatically over the past few decades. Today, only 12-21% of older adults have such benefits.
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Link: https://t.co/dA1efu4dgL
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Mashup Score: 35Physicians are Today Mostly Employees as the Healthcare Provision Landscape Rapidly Corporatizes - 1 month(s) ago
As far back as the 1980s, there was some talk of the coming “proletarianization” of physicians. However, only in recent years does the phenomenon seem to have truly taken hold. Or, at the very least, we can say that the self-employed physician — at one point the archetype of the profession — is rapidly disappearing, at least in most specialties (private practice psychiatry is a presumed significant exception).
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About 3/4 of physicians are employees of corporations or hospitals. This is occurring alongside accelerating broader corporate takeover of healthcare provision. Ramifications for medical workers and patients may be grave. New Health Class post: https://t.co/BdpYiNWM98
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Mashup Score: 35Physicians are Today Mostly Employees as the Healthcare Provision Landscape Rapidly Corporatizes - 1 month(s) ago
As far back as the 1980s, there was some talk of the coming “proletarianization” of physicians. However, only in recent years does the phenomenon seem to have truly taken hold. Or, at the very least, we can say that the self-employed physician — at one point the archetype of the profession — is rapidly disappearing, at least in most specialties (private practice psychiatry is a presumed significant exception).
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About 3/4 of physicians are employees of corporations or hospitals. This is occurring alongside accelerating broader corporate takeover of healthcare provision. Ramifications for medical workers and patients may be grave. New Health Class post: https://t.co/BdpYiNWM98
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A recent Bloomberg headline reported: “A Spike in Heart Disease Deaths Since Covid Is Puzzling Scientists.” Cardiovascular deaths have been elevated during the pandemic, the article notes, and as others have previously described. “Scientists are still trying to figure out why,” it asserts, noting that “[i]t’s unclear how many people died from Covid’s cardiovascular complications and how many died because of its indirect consequences, such as disrupted medical care and worsening rates of
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... predominantly the former, as I discuss here, but more work is needed. There are significant policy/medical implications of the question. https://t.co/wXF1dAcaHA
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Mashup Score: 4Mortality from common respiratory pathogens in the COVID-19 era: Trends and implications - 5 month(s) ago
Last year, a resurgent respiratory viral season — particularly a surge in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections among children — led to some acrimonious debate. Many scientists noted that the phenomenon was more or less explainable by the dramatic (undisputed) global decline in the circulation of common respiratory viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beneficial for some time, this decline also increased the share of the population (or at least of children) susceptible to these viruses, leading to a degree of “catch up” once these pathogens returned to widespread circulation (a phenomenon sometimes characterized as “immunity debt”). Others, in contrast, argued that COVID-19 gravely damaged the immune systems of the US and presumably world population, leading to greater intrinsic susceptibility to infection across the board.
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What impact did COVID-19 have on (non-COVID-19) respiratory infection mortality, and what does that say about "immunity debt" or immune system damage from the pandemic? I wrote up some thoughts: https://t.co/XNqzgpBIZZ
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Mashup Score: 37The War and Siege on Gaza is a Medical Catastrophe - 7 month(s) ago
The Emergency Treatment is a Ceasefire
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War and siege is producing a medical catastrophe in Gaza — I argue that the medical community must join calls for an emergent ceasefire now. https://t.co/RT1RJbJGEF
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How do we explain the fact that COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising in England? As physician and healthcare researcher Walid Gellad recently noted on twitter, there are effectively no immunologically naïve people left in that nation: almost everybody has been vaccinated or infected. That they are experiencing another wave of cases may not be surprising, given that immunity to COVID-19 manifests…
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I wrote down some thoughts about rising COVID-19 hospitalizations in England and the potential role of "incidental" infections. https://t.co/B9Ic8aFjN5 https://t.co/aHLLOVDNbf
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Since the expiration of funding for the COVID-19 uninsured program last Tuesday, the federal government will no longer cover the costs of COVID-19 treatment, testing, or vaccine administration for uninsured individuals. That means that these disadvantaged individuals will be subject to whatever hospitals and other providers charge for tests or care, which can be expected to lead to deferred care…
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In the last two years, uninsured people were covered for ~$600 of COVID-19 related care per person by the COVID-19 Uninsured Program, which is basically now over. That includes $360 for testing. End of this program = deferred testing/care & debt. https://t.co/i0f6trXP0a https://t.co/iJfpbGDgQG
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