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Posted on October 8, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
BREAKING NEWS
By Staff Reporters
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The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two researchers who helped build the foundations of the artificial intelligence that surrounds us today.
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton both worked on machine learning techniques that would go on to power products such as ChatGPT.
Hopfield’s research is carried out at Princeton University and Hinton works at the University of Toronto.
Posted on October 8, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
Dental Managed Care [DMC] is Substandard Care – count on it!
By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS
Have you noticed most employer-sponsored dental plans boast savings of 30% and more on dental care, without mentioning how unsustainable discounts harms their employees?
Dental Managed Care [DMC] is substandard care: Discount dentistry, like virtually all underfunded handwork, has always been substandard … Or perhaps someone would like to argue that intricate surgery in sensitive mouths of nervous patients is improved when rushed.
Discounts are popular
Those who market obscure, hard to understand managed care plans to clueless, perhaps non-caring employers, do not control the quality of the discounted dentistry they sell.
Think about it: Discount dentistry without quality control. Can you think of a worse idea in healthcare?
What’s more, not one Delta Dental, Humana or Cigna executive can be held accountable for causing harm to equally clueless dental patients through under financed dentistry they sell. Employees who must choose their dentists from preferred provider lists have forfeited freedom of choice, whether they realize it or not. Their underfunded, substandard dentistry is subsidized by tax payers as a special tax-free benefit, benefiting unaccountable third parties most of all.
For example:
Want to know what you get with managed care dentistry? Quick prophys.
How many of you get your teeth cleaned in 30 minutes or less? Do they feel clean?
One Hour
l always allowed my hygienists 1 hour to clean patients’ teeth simply because it often takes that long to do the job right – regardless what insurers say hygienists’ time is worth. The economic climate is tough on fee-for-service.
As I am considering signing on as a preferred provider – not because I want to – I notice that the fees allowed by insurers do not cover the hourly rate of most hygienists… unless they can “clean” teeth, take x-rays, take blood pressure, go over patients’ medical history, allow time for the doctor to do a quick exam and turn around the room in less than 30 minutes.
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Assessment
The motto of my practice is “Dentistry Unhurried.” I don’t want to compete in a race to the bottom which uninformed dental patients always lose.
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Posted on October 8, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
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October continues to be a tough month for stocks, with all three major indexes spending yesterday afternoon in the red. The Dow in particular had a horrible day and dropped over 500 points, while major tech stocks were pushed lower by a series of analyst downgrades.
Oil continued its hot streak yesterday, rising above $77 on the back of geopolitical conflict in the Middle East. That helped ensure that, while everything else fell, energy was the only positive sector in the S&P 500.
Gold has often found itself rising in tandem with crude, though it broke that habit, with the shiny safe haven dropping a hair as investors digest the idea that the Fed’s next interest rate cut may be smaller than they thought.
Bitcoin broke above $64,000 for a moment yesterday only to be yanked back down, as crypto traders ride out the recent volatility.
Posted on October 8, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
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In a public health milestone, the US adult obesity rate stopped its long climb and dropped by roughly two percentage points between 2020 and 2023, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
In 2024, about 62% of clinicians reported that “excessive documentation requirements” is a leading cause of burnout, according to Athenahealth, a health tech and electronic health record (EHR) company. The American Medical Association reported in January that primary care physicians, for example, can spend up to 45.7 minutes on medical record documentation for every 30-minute appointment.
Scholar Rock shares quadrupled (yes, you read that right) 361.99% after its spinal muscular atrophy drug apitegromab provided a dramatic improvement for patients in a late-stage clinical trial.
Super Micro Computer surged 15.79% after the semiconductor company announced it shipped over 100,000 GPUs last quarter, highlighting strong data center demand.
Generac Holdings makes generators, so it’s no wonder that the stock popped 8.54% thanks to huge demand for back-up power from areas hit by Hurricane Helene and places preparing to deal with Hurricane Milton.
Arcadium Lithium skyrocketed 35.39% after it announced that Rio Tinto has approached the lithium miner about an acquisition.
Air Products and Chemicals rose 9.53% after CNBC reported that activist investor Mantle Ridge has taken a $1 billion stake in the industrial gas supplier. Activist investors are clearly getting more active these days.
What’s down
Netflix sank 2.47% thanks to a downgrade from Barclays analysts worried that the streaming service’s revenues will slow in the coming months. That outweighed an upgrade from Piper Sandler analysts, who think the streamer’s high valuation is warranted.
In another big tech downgrade, Wells Fargo analysts downgraded Amazon due to multiple headwinds like competition from Walmart and lower advertising revenue. Shares sank 3.06%.
Back-to-back hurricanes hitting the South are pummeling insurance stocks like Universal Insurance (down 19.60%), Allstate (down 4.90%) Travelers Companies (down 4.34%) and Chubb (down 4.61%).
Garmin tumbled 4.06% on a downgrade from Morgan Stanley analysts, who think the device-maker’s revenue will decline and margins will shrink in the coming quarters.
The S&P 500® index (SPX) fell 55.13 points (–0.96%) to 5,695.94;the Dow Jones Industrial Average® ($DJI) dropped 398.51 points (–0.94%) to 41,954.24; and the NASDAQ Composite® ($COMP) lost 213.94 points (–1.18%) to 17,923.90.
The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) rose five basis points to 4.03%, near two-month highs.
The CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX) climbed to 22.77, the highest in a month.
Stat: $1.6 billion. That’s the size of the federal loan guarantee that the operators of Three Mile Island are seeking from the Energy Department. Constellation Energy plans to restart the infamous plant to sell electricity to Microsoft data centers (Washington Post)
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