Americans are struggling with medical bills. This news is from charities that assist patients with medical bills. Critics point to President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill as exacerbating the problem. They argue cutting Medicaid eligibility and not extending the enhanced subsidies for Obamacare as raising costs for some Americans. Even with insurance medical bills strain budgets.
Thursday Links
- How Republicans might reform health care.
- The biggest problem with Obamacare: There is no price competition.
- Should race be a factor in deciding who gets a kidney?
- Chatbots can become accomplished thieves.
- Estimate: up to 17% of gamers meet the clinical criteria for “gaming disorder.” Study: moderate gaming use can be good for your brain.
- Most of the fish we eat are raised in “underwater factory farms.”
Wednesday Links
- Former Sen. Bill Frist (and colleagues) reviews MAHA policy toward food.
- Why immediate expensing of capital investment is a good thing.
- Cost of IVF could exceed $300,000. (WSJ)
- During the 2000s, the FDA’s oncology chief, Richard Pazdur, torpedoed cancer treatment drug tests based on quibbles with their trial designs—until his wife got cancer.
- How hospitals violate the price transparency requirements.
A Republican plan for affordable health care
Republicans succeeded in quashing Democrats’ efforts to reauthorize the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsides — at least so far. Now it’s time for Republicans to put forward their own health care reforms that will increase access to a wide variety of affordable health insurance plans. And that appears to be their goal. Read the full article on TheHill.com