- Mamdani has one good idea for New York City.
- Michael Cannon: The Minnesota fraud case is not usual.
- Obstacle to AI doctoring: there are no CPT codes. Another problem: It is explicitly illegal in all 50 states for AI to prescribe, treat, diagnose, and refer without an appropriate medical license.
- Reverse Flynn effect: IQ scores have been falling.
- The federal (Obamacare) exchange approved subsidized health insurance for 23 of 24 fictitious applications submitted by GAO.
- From 2018 to 2023, the number of direct primary care and concierge practice sites grew by 83.1 percent and the number of clinicians participating in them by 78.4 percent.
Category: Policy & Legislation
Thursday Links
- In Madagascar, lemurs are a delicacy – to dine on.
- Ultra processed foods are bad for the stomach and the intestines. (NYT)
- There are 3.2 million home health aides and personal care aides on the job last year, up from 1.4 million a decade ago – one-third of them are immigrants.
- What Britain will pay for drugs: about $26,500 to $40,000 for a healthy year of life saved.
- Why Social Security and Medicare need immigrants:
If all immigration were stopped, America’s working-age population would fall by about 5% through 2035 … while the number of seniors older than 80 — who generate much larger bills per person for Medicare … — will double.
TrumpRx could be a gamechanger
The day is coming when consumers can go online and buy their brand-name prescription drugs directly from pharmaceutical manufacturers or through affiliated online distributors for much less than they are currently charged at local pharmacies. It is early in the process, but the proposed TrumpRx website could become the catalyst for some much-needed changes and health care savings. Read the full article on TheHill.com
Racial Outcomes in Maternal Mortality (Report Sept 2025)
This report to the Texas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was released in September. Merrill Matthews is the outgoing chair of the committee (after 17 years on the committee) and oversaw the hearings and production of this report. Click here to view the report.