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When co-pays kill.

“Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a function of their birth month, beyond which out-of-pocket costs suddenly increase. Those facing smaller budgets consume fewer drugs and die more: 0.0164 percentage points per month (13.9%) for […]

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How to die in good health.

Peter Attia is the golden boy of the longevity medicine movement. This is a relatively balanced article written by a doctor who spent some time with him recently. “The increasing obsession with longevity has inspired a backlash. Many in the […]

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Walmart will exit the health clinic business.

“Healthcare is expensive to run. We were finding that the increased labor and operating costs environment, like with reimbursement, both public and private, made it difficult (to run the business) and obvious we had to close,” Walmart spokeswoman Marilee McInnis […]

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Optum: testing time for an invisible empire.

“At $226 billion annual revenues, Optum is the largest healthcare business in the US that no-one knows anything about. Optum by itself has revenues that are a little less than 5% of total US healthcare spending.” … and … “If […]

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Critical evaluation of diabetes management tools.

The PHTI is a new independant nonprofit that, “aims to provide independent, evidence-based assessments of emerging products, something that is currently lacking in the market.” Their first “blistering” report concluded that diabetes monitoring apps “do not deliver meaningful clinical benefits, […]

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Live a healthier life.

This was an interesting interview with Jason Carp, founder of Hu Products, Hu Kitchen, and HumanCo, a private holding company that invests in and builds brands focused on healthier living and sustainability. Listening to this, I was reminded exactly why […]

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The synergy of health and wealth.

It’s my pleasure to promote this interview between two people who I really like: Ilya Zlotnik, wealth advisor and partner at Vivaldi Capital Management, and Daniel Chille, founder and owner of TBD Fitness. ~ learn more