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
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Tuesday Links
- Around 2 million 12-to-17 year olds are on S.S.R.I.s, the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressants. (NYT)
- Study: Antidepressants for children are no better than a placebo, but with greater side effects.
- Gene editing techniques are getting better and faster.
- Some benefits of root canals: less diabetes and heart disease.
- Can robots do the job of nursing home care? (WSJ)
- Cost of IVF could exceed $300,000. (WSJ)
- Technology is making the war on Cancer winnable. (WSJ)
During the 2000s, the agency’s oncology chief, Richard Pazdur, torpedoed treatments based on quibbles with their trial designs
NPR: Fewer Physicians Trained Abroad Want to Practice Medicine in U.S.
More than one-quarter of applicants for U.S. residency programs are foreign medical graduates. In 2025, 9,761 international medical graduates matched to a residency program in the U.S. out of a pool estimated to be as high as 15,000 who wanted to come. Some of these were U.S. citizens attending school abroad, but most were foreign born and educated abroad.
Monday Links
- Immigrant geniuses: Between 1990 and 2019, migrants from China, India, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines accounted for nearly 40 percent of the growth in America’s software-developer ranks, a quarter of new scientists and engineers, and a fifth of additional physicians.
- Effect of students’ failure to learn: the lifetime earnings of today’s average student will be an estimated 8 percent lower than that of students in 2013.
- Why aren’t there more HSAs in exchange plans?
- Based on data from almost 2 million species, researchers found that in the last 200 years, there was no evidence for increasing extinction from climate change.