James_Henry

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by James_Henry 7y ago
This is completely expected behavior from two firms that have been found to "use out-of-network billing to significantly raise the amounts they are paid." [0] [0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w23623.pdf Luckil
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Blackstone Group and KKR try to derail surprise healthcare billing law(nytimes.com)
4 points by James_Henry 7y ago|1 comments
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by James_Henry 7y ago
This is completely expected behavior from two firms that have been found to "use out-of-network billing to significantly raise the amounts they are paid." [0] [0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w23623.pdf
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Private equity-backed staffing firms try to derail surprise billing law(nytimes.com)
3 points by James_Henry 7y ago|1 comments
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by James_Henry 7y ago
Sure, but we know how it often acts in trials.
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by James_Henry 7y ago
This is false. We can explain a lot without a placebo comparison. Also, the placebo isn't magic, we just haven't studied exactly what it is. It clearly does have limitations: look at all the studies where the placebo only does so
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by James_Henry 7y ago
Do you know how strong the placebo works on Horvath's epigenetic clock? I don't think that research has been done, but it will be soon I am sure and it will be incredibly interesting to find out. Even without knowing that though,
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by James_Henry 7y ago
Yes, this is very standard practice. You can still learn a lot with a small sample size and no control, especially when you don't know much. It's a big deal that they are able to see a full on reversal of Horvath's clock whet
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by James_Henry 7y ago
Upton Sinclair reported skinny people gaining weight after they took up fasting. Maybe there's something it could do for you? Also, you won't lose much weight in a week and could also try a fasting-mimicking diet too.
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by James_Henry 7y ago
Fasting does increase growth hormone amount and spike frequency, but it also makes you growth hormone resistant https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041310... Why is it lousy to do formal res
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by James_Henry 7y ago
I'm not sure what you are referencing with the 20% cut remark, but there isn't harm to health insurance companies (actually, providing care through medicare advantage may be an issue...) if everyone is extremely healthy. Then the
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by James_Henry 7y ago
With the ACA, insurance companies have incentives to encourage the people they cover to take as good of care of themselves as possible more than ever. I think they are currently and in the future will do a better job of that than the tax co
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by James_Henry 7y ago
Or minimax regret
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by James_Henry 7y ago
You don't need to have a distribution to make a decision. I don't think I understand what you are saying.
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by James_Henry 7y ago
Googling <statistical decision theory> might help you out. My opinion is the Wikipedia page for decision theory could use a good rewrite. Someday I may get around to it. Also, madhadron didn't quite say that Bayesian and frequent