- Casey Mulligan: Medicaid financing gimmicks are driving up costs for everyone.
- Using electronic heath records, a Kaiser model can effectively identify individuals at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes up to 10 years in advance.
- Yglesias: Where Trump has failed us: from the screwworm to Ebola.
- We are one step closer to designer babies.
- Currently, the cost of adopting a healthy baby is from $40,000 to $85,000, paid to various middlemen.
- The Medicare actuary’s office calculates there was a roughly 18-fold increase in spending on skin substitutes over the past four years.
Category: Health Reform
A Better Way to Solve Medical Debt than Borrowing
Medical debt is a severe problem for many people, especially those with health problems and cheap insurance. The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) conducted a survey that found 41% of American adults have medical debts. About one-quarter of adults have medical bills they are having trouble paying off. Nearly half of those with debts (about 44%) owe at least $2,500, while 12% owe more than $10,000. While these amounts do not sound outrageous compared to the cost of automobiles and mortgages, these debts may be inflated by price gouging.
Thursday Links – 11 June 2026
- OpenEvidence’s A.I. app, essentially a chatbot for medicine, has become a viral hit with physicians. (NYT)
- Even some people with normal body weight by B.M.I. standards could be considered to have obesity.
- RFK Jr.: Make french fries great again.
- “Give us a ransom payment of $5,000 or we will harvest your son’s kidney and sell it.”
- This Ebola outbreak threatens to be the worst in history.
Is Abortion the Solution to Down Syndrome?
A popular YouTuber set off a bombshell of controversy when he shared news about his wife’s pregnancy on social media. Jesse Ridgway announced his wife’s amniocentesis tested positive for Trisomy 21. Their baby would be born with Down syndrome. They made the decision to abort the fetus due to the prospect of raising a child with lifelong disability.