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RFK Jr. targets childhood psychiatric drugs; doctors push back

The Hill

counties had no child psychiatrists between 2006 and 2017 despite a broader increase in the profession during that time frame. The researchers noted that more than half of the children in the United States with a treatable mental health disorder do not receive treatment from a mental health professional.

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“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Health Care Blog

The authors ruled out the most obvious cost response–cost-shifting to workers by raising their deductibles or copayments–on the grounds that they found no changes in Health Savings Account enrollment in the sample during the five year study period. Remember the authors deliberately oversampled urban markets.