- A bad day in Congress for PBMs.
- Does exposure to hip hop music lead to worse outcomes in education, employment, earnings, teen births and single parenthood? No.
- It would take a PCP 27 hours per day to deliver guideline-recommended primary care to a typical panel of patients.
- Hospital merger studies are suspicious, if not fake.
- Money laundering Gavin Newsom style.
- Standing between patients and potentially huge benefits of scientific research: decades of regulatory review and delay.
- The Trump administration really wants you to drink whole milk.
Category: Health Reform
Goodman on Health Policy
Why both parties missed an opportunity to reform Medicaid. Why they missed an opportunity to reform the Obamacare exchanges. Why partisanship is the biggest obstacle to sensible health reform.
Watch Dr. Goodman’s talk to the Public Affairs Luncheon Club in Dallas.
Who Can Use the Title Doctor? Titles are Contentious in Health Care
The title, doctor, carries a lot of prestige. Perhaps due to the prestige or to erect further barriers to entry, a few medical professions have elevated their training to a doctorate. Doctor of Pharmacy is now rather common for students graduating from pharmacy school. Doctor of Nursing Practice is the norm for new nurse practitioners. There is also a Doctor of Physician Therapy, Doctor of Audiology, Doctor of Chiropractic and Doctor of Psychology. What should these medical professionals call themselves?
Wednesday Links – 4 February 2026
- Issue causing a sharp divide among Catholics: how to take communion.
- “Thomas joins a growing number of people who say their casual A.I. use turned excessive and addictive, and led them to a state of psychosis that almost cost them their lives.”
- 53 percent of traditional Medicare beneficiaries receive care through an accountable care organization.
- Hard to believe: Democrats are objecting to TrumpRx.
- Male birth control is on the horizon. (Statnews)
- More than one-quarter of physicians enrolled In Medicaid delivered no care to beneficiaries.
- KFF poll: other than cost, authorizations rank as public’s biggest burden when getting health care.