Should health care spending make up 35% of GDP?
Perhaps at least according to Tyler Cowen. Here is an excerpt from his Conversation with…
Should health care spending make up 35% of GDP?
Perhaps at least according to Tyler Cowen. Here is an excerpt from his Conversation with Dan Wang: WANG: …health care is what, 20% of the American GDP?COWEN: 17 point something. That’s a lot, right?WANG: That’s a lot. That feels too high to me. I feel like we should be ringing better efficiencies out here.COWEN: It seems not high enough,…
Liquid Biopsy Firm Freenome Finds a Way to the Public Markets via $330M SPAC Merger
Freenome’s SPAC merger agreement comes as the liquid biopsy developer prepares for potential 2026 commercialization of SimpleScreen, a colorectal cancer test currently under FDA review. If approved, the Freenome blood test would compete against Guardant Health’s liquid biopsy, Shield. The post Liquid Biopsy Firm Freenome Finds a Way to the Public Markets via $330M SPAC…
In RFK Jr.’s Upside-Down World of Vaccines, Panel Votes To End Hepatitis B Shot at Birth
Recent weeks have brought good news about vaccines, with studies indicating that flu vaccination reduces heart disease, shingles vaccines can prevent or slow dementia, and a single human papilloma virus shot protects a girl from cervical cancer for the rest of her life. But in the upside-down world of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert…
Litigation Challenging the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Law’s Provision Blocking Federal Medicaid Payments to Planned Parenthood
This brief provides an overview of these legal challenges and summarizes the key positions of the plaintiffs and the defendants, Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Feds Promised ‘Radical Transparency’ but Withhold $50B Rural Fund Details
Medication-delivering drones. Telehealth at libraries. Church-hosted wellness events. These are a few ideas proposed by states in their bids to win a portion of the new $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program. Congress approved the five-year spending plan in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the same law that codified nearly $1 trillion in…
Call Center Lessons: Streamline the Challenges and Celebrate More Wins
By building skills in operations and developing a close-knit team who show up to work with hearts of empathy and tenacity to problem solve, the issues become fewer and further between. The post Call Center Lessons: Streamline the Challenges and Celebrate More Wins appeared first on MedCity News.
Open Enrollment: Why Rising Premiums Are Forcing Healthcare Organizations to Bet on AI and Automation
Open enrollment 2026 marks a turning point in U.S. healthcare. The cost pressures are no longer cyclical; they are structural. For payers and providers alike, the challenge is clear: we must modernize operations, not just manage costs. The post Open Enrollment: Why Rising Premiums Are Forcing Healthcare Organizations to Bet on AI and Automation appeared…
KFF Health Tracking Poll: Knowledge and Views of Medication Abortion
This KFF Health Tracking Poll finds that many, including women of reproductive age, remain unfamiliar with key facts about mifepristone. Fewer than half of all adults say they believe abortion pills are safe now, compared to over half of all adults two years ago. This poll explores awareness and perception of the recent FDA review…
Mientras científicos estudian la propagación del sarampión en el país, Kennedy pone en riesgo avances que costaron décadas
Estados Unidos está a punto de perder su estatus de país libre de sarampión el próximo año. Si eso sucede, entraría en una nueva etapa en la que los brotes volverían a ser comunes. Más niñas y niños serían hospitalizados por esta enfermedad prevenible. Algunos perderían la audición. Algunos morirían. El sarampión también es costoso….
While Scientists Race To Study Spread of Measles in US, Kennedy Unravels Hard-Won Gains
The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common again. More children would be hospitalized because of this preventable disease. Some would lose their hearing. Some would die. Measles is also expensive. A new study — not yet…
