Mortality, Medical Coding and the (Purported) Drop in Hospital Readmission Rates
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, patient mortality, and a medical coding debacle
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2:00PM Water Cooler 1/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Trump Wall speech and aftermath, Sanders 2020, electronic voting debacles, Mothership Strategies, Ed Buck, employment situation, recession likelihood, crypto, marijuana legalization, smoking, sexism, Adolph Reed on political history, cellphones
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The Mysteries Surrounding Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, the Sackler Family’s Second Opioid Company
The Sackler family has managed to hide its ownership of a drug company with an even bigger share of the US opioid market than Purdue Pharma.
Read more...The Economics of Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes
Quelle surprise! Scammers have cooked up trading schemes to defraud upstanding cryptocurrency users.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/8/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Wall Street Democrats, ACO long read, DSA after two years, identarianism, data in the shutdown, labor market, small business optimism, retail sales, what’s next after robot cars, Apple iPhone, iPad, iOS, Newsome and single payer, co-ops and monopoly, good people
Read more...Wolf Richter: Housing Bubble Trouble in Silicon Valley & San Francisco
Housing is going pear-shaped in California tech-land….and you can’t blame it on a tech bust.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Davos Wants a Better Measure of Failure
Some Davos musings show that our elites aren’t what they are cracked up to be.
Read more...Starting the New Year Badly and Well
Handicapping the new year based on early indicators.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/7/2019
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m finishing up a post on AOC’s Green New Deal (GND) proposal, considered as policy, so this Water Cooler will be a little bit light. If I’m not utterly consumed by the GND effort, I’ll circle back and add more material here. –lambert UPDATE Nope. I have RL […]
Read more...AOC’s Green New Deal as Policy
A close reading of Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal for a Green New Deal.
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The Return on Information Technology
Using an exceptionally rich firm-level dataset from Belgium, this column finds that large firms benefit more from IT than small firms.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Response to Reader Comments
A follow up to Andrew Dittmer’s series on libertarian thinking.
Read more...Should Institutional Providers Be Incentivized by Profit under Medicare for All?
Provider payment strategies under S1804 and HR676 (and what Jayapal should do with a new version of HR676).
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