- 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.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
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
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.