rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum
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Investigative data journalism: quantifying fixable waste in US healthcare, one issue at a time. Open-source analysis of CMS, OECD, and federal datasets. $428.6B in savings identified so far across 8 published issues.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2026-03-16 · latest 2026-04-06
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…$28B/year in addressable waste All analysis scripts and raw data pipelines are open source: https://github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum/tr... Previous issue on admin waste (Issue #5) hit the front page here 20 days ago. Happy…
comment by rexroad · 2026-04-06 · in We analyzed 5,480 hospital cost reports. Supply spending varies 3-7x -
…a single year. Six mechanisms, $30B/year booked conservatively. Running total across four issues: $128.6B. github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum
comment by rexroad · 2026-03-22 · in The American Healthcare Conundrum -
…methodologies and why the estimates range so widely. All source code will be in the repo: https://github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum The policy lever that addresses this is billing standardization, not just insurer reform.…
comment by rexroad · 2026-03-18 · in The American Healthcare Conundrum -
…US obesity would reduce healthcare spending by about 12%, real but not 2.5x. Repo with methodology: https://github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum
comment by rexroad · 2026-03-18 · in The American Healthcare Conundrum -
…this series covers the full mechanism stack and what each proposed reform actually targets. Repo: https://github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum
comment by rexroad · 2026-03-17 · in The American Healthcare Conundrum -
…for equivalent services. All the scripts are in the repo if you want to dig into the hospital-level data: github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum
comment by rexroad · 2026-03-16 · in The American Healthcare Conundrum -
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