Health policy @CenterModHealth. Teaching @DartmouthInst. The guy who keeps saying things about healthcare that neither side wants to hear.
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In this psilocybin depression study, at one year out, 16 of 17 participants in the psilocybin group correctly guessed which group they were in (treatment or placebo), as did 16 of 16 in the niacin group. 😜 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
I'd like to give a special shout out to the "eighty percenters" out there. Health policy is multitudinous. If you agree with ~80% of what we write/say @centermodhealth and disagree with the other 20%, but you still follow us, then that's pretty cool of you. You're our kind.
If you have the soul of a builder but for whatever reason right now is not the time to pursue that, try to find a job where they're willing to give you the keys to some program where they've laid out the basic goals and conditions, but how you do it is up to you. Doesn't even matter what. Wide berth is what is key.
Victor Wooten has said that how a person reacts to unexpected disruptions during travel is a good indicator of one's character. I propose another one that's just as good: how a person treats referees in youth sports.
Happy Pythagorean Triple Day! (Last one this century.) 10/24/26 instagram.com/reel/De2JAMFvb…
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Ever wonder how much health coverage mandates add to the premium you pay?
@jaredrhoads joins me on the podcast to talk about his recent paper that estimates the cost of state coverage mandates.
Link here: church.substack.com/p/health…
I went on @TomVChurch's podcast this week to talk about health insurance, and specifically about coverage mandates. The episode is now out: church.substack.com/p/health…
Blue states offer more freedom to patients seeking hormonal birth control than do red states or purple states. See variable #24 below. These scores are on a scale of 1.0 (bad) to 5.0 (good).
More scores here: centerformodernhealth.org/pu…
Blue states restrict short-term renewable health plans much more than do red states or purple states. See variable #38 below. These scores are on a scale of 1.0 (bad) to 5.0 (good).
In the category of Institutional Freedom, red and purple states are noticeably more free than blue states. But in the Patient Freedom category, the story is the opposite. centerformodernhealth.org/pu…
"Red states" do a much better job at clearing the way for concierge medicine and Direct Primary Care to work. See variable #52 below. centerformodernhealth.org/pu…
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CMH's @jaredrhoads is quoted in this HFMA piece about the Democratic party's health reform efforts. @hfmaorg hfma.org/fast-finance/why-th…
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The relationship between state political leanings and health freedom is more nuanced than the standard red-state/blue-state stereotypes might lead us to expect. centerformodernhealth.org/pu…
I've never had a root canal or a colonoscopy, but I can't imagine that either could possibly be worse than trying to use the Google Ads interface.
My preferred refutation of Medicare for All goes even further than just choice (e.g., it takes away people's choice). That's true and important. But even more, it undermines the whole situation of a person being in control of their own pursuit of health. It takes away *agency.*
Imagine we had NSA-style IDR for everything. I could start declaring various calls, guest talks, letters of recommendation, etc., out-of-network, and submit capriciously high billed amounts to an arbitrator. All I'd need is one ridiculous bill to get approved and boom--WINDFALL!
"A hill I will die on," so to speak, is the idea that if you care about your writing, either make sure it prints nicely or give people a decent-looking PDF option. We do the latter at @centermodhealth
.@statnews calls this a "counterintuitive" approach. That's actually very revealing about the mindset of the average public health practitioner. It means that the idea of conveying a true account of risks/rewards and appealing to reason was abandoned long ago in favor of trying to actively steer people to a particular action (even if it is, on average, the smart decision--which in this case it is).
